Grey Day

I'm going to start you all off with a picture of brilliant sunshine today to cheer up those of us that are suffering from SAD, we certainly haven't seen much of the stuff this week and it's a long time until spring! Diana and I felt very much the same yesterday and it's hard to motivate yourself when that's the case. We retreated into the greenhouse and picked the remaining baby figs, they wont ripen any more now so Di will preserve them and serve them with cream, nothing is wasted in this garden.After that we contented ourselves with taking hard wood cuttings of rosemary and black currants and splitting a favourite hardy geranium to move into the front garden come spring. That was about as much as we could bring ourselves to do, so we finished the afternoon with a late lunch and an hour of pouring over next years seed catalogues dreaming of our successes in the new year!

"Tis hard the grey weather, breeds hard English men"

Charles Kingsley