Hello. It's Tuesday 9 September 2025.

Well it's been a weekend of bad stuff: an attempted fraud on my bank card, a cancelled bank card, failed card payments which meant no phone contract renewal (which meant no working phone), together with hormone dramas, plus poorly chickens and sadly one of them, Florence, passed away unexpectedly yesterday. So it's been a lot. 

I'm still busy on the plot: deadheading, cutting back, tending to the dahlias, negotiating sales with florists, co-ordinating availability lists, cutting and conditioning, practising my spiral hand-tied bouquets and wrapping them (with some success this time), plus the obligatory weeding and tidying. I've also been sorting 'Kylie's room' in preparation for turning it into a flower studio/workspace. 

The second part of the episode is me talking you through my sales goals for 2026 which, quite frankly, are now baffling me. In order to make the sales goal I came up with, I have to sell a large volume of stems (at the right price). There's a lot to factor in, such as plant spacings and price per stem, and I need to keep crunching the numbers until it all makes sense. I hope that I'll have some sensible figures soon!

I do hope you enjoy this episode and that you'll come back and join me for the next one: episodes come out on Tuesdays and Fridays every week and you're always very welcome to join me. 

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