The Big Issue has just published Down the Garden Path. Here’s how it starts:

My neighbor pulls up as I’m standing in my front yard looking, again, at all the weeds, wondering where on earth to start.

“What’s the plan?” he asks cheerily, closing his car door.

“Oh, there’s no plan,” I say. “There’s never been a plan.”

The Big Issue Australia. Edition 546. Available from vendors from 22 September.