January.

As a person who enjoys the long, balmy days of summer I find winter quite a challenge, and January in particular. It always seems a bit of an anticlimax after the busyness of Christmas, but this week we saw a glimpse of sunshine so I managed to while away several minutes in the garden. What a treat! Although the weeds are still growing it was lovely to find the little irises manfully pushing their way through. It will be another couple of weeks before we see them bloom. The aconites are usually first here, even before the snowdrops. One of our young friends was thrilled to find a tete a tete daffodil in bloom this week – on the windowsill, not outdoors. Seed catalogues have already arrived and so Husband is milling over them, debating how many packets he’ll order for the veggie plot. A request… not quite as many tomatoes this year please, the mice got to the stragglers before we did! x