Fix my heart? This week proved it's working just fine

SO WHERE are we? Ah, yes. Approaching the end of April. Which, according to my seed packets, is the last possible point at which my planned sowing (sunflowers, sweet peas, Welsh poppies) can take place if they're to germinate in time.

- LYNNE BARRETT-LEE

I have compost too, heaps of it, which arrived unexpectedly - the result of an order I'd forgotten I'd even made, it having been that-kind-of-a-week.

But I am determined. To misquote Voltaire (and if I do, blame the “AI Overview”), I am definitely going to cultivate my own garden.

Which is a rather clumsy way of segueing into the start of that that-kind-of-a-week I mentioned, during which, in a moment of possibly misplaced political fervour, I shared an article, written beautifully by a journalist I admire, concerning the Supreme Court's recent and much-dissected ruling that, in law, the term “woman” refers to biological sex.

Can I just say, right now, that these are waters into which I have never dipped my toe lightly. I am pro-everyone's rights being upheld by the law, though my stance from the get-go on this has never changed - indeed, for many reasons, it has deepened. I agree unequivocally with the Supreme Court. So that’s that, and I shared that, and said, “RIP that odious term ‘TERF, please’, and got on with my Easter preparations.

And why, quite, do some of us do these things, I wonder? After all, it’s so much easier to hover in the background, isn’t it? It’s also easier - and I know, because it’s generally how I operate - to have real conversations, in real, actual settings, than to contribute to the virtual world’s shrill and shouty clamour, where, as we know, hearts and minds are unlikely to be changed, and the trenches of warring camps are only dug deeper.

Needless to say, since my “following” is on the modest side of modest, my tuppence-worth garnered a small sprinkling of likes and - perhaps most important, no, definitely most important - I felt I had, in a small way, amplified a voice that really spoke to me.