Tasks lined up for Easter

I'm not too good at being on holiday at home.   I don't tend to view the Easter break as a time to relax - instead, I see it as a time to catch up on the chores which I haven't got round to doing since probably last Easter.  
I'm okay when I'm on holiday away from home - I can't do any household tasks so my mind allows itself to relax and ''smell the roses''.  However, I haven't had a holiday for four years so I can't remember how to go about ''smelling the roses''.   Due to straitened times, I must try to find a different way of enveloping myself in the fragrance of those elusive roses.
Getting outside and getting more active is an obvious plan of action, particularly in this good weather.  I took the lawnmower out of the shed and scraped away last year's left-over grass from the bottom of the machine, blew off the cobwebs from the extension lead, and off I went.  I like cutting the grass - I like the satisfaction of looking at the newly-mown lawn and watching the blackbirds swoop down to peck at the worms afterwards.  I think my brain must have a slant towards a tick-box mentality.
I go round in a square, pulling the mower instead of pushing it - I find that method easier.  As I relaxed and looked at my nextdoor neigbour's pear tree in full blossom, there was a horrible cracking noise and the mower cut out.   Yes, I had let my mind wander and had sliced straight through the cable of the machine.   So my first task this Easter is to go to the DIY store and try to sort out another cable without paying the Earth for it.  Meanwhile, half the lawn is looking neat and the other is....not.
However, while I'm there I shall pick out some lovely plants and make sure the garden is in full bloom this summer in case we have to sell our house.  I have mixed feelings about this - the flowers, not the house - because part of me thinks it's a shame for somebody else to reap the benefits of my green fingers, but on the other hand, I can see how a nicely-placed hydrangea can put a few thousand pounds on the value of the house. 
It's the time of the year to think about putting in a clematis to trail its way around the fence.   But the fence is the newest thing in our house/garden, so should I disguise it with plants or let it stand naked in all its glorious newness?  I think I'll leave it as it is.