Hic!

Well Christmas is gradually fading away for another year, Santa + friends gave me a wonderful selection of amazing books about carpentry, gardening (and most importantly) cooking! I have the river cottage cookbook , and the Sarah Raven cookbook as well as the ultimate woodworking guide which will be fantastic for my greenhouse. The ideas in my head need to start being planned on paper.

I also have a gardening diary and a super gardeners trug for carrying all my tools and seeds, in addition to a couple of very useful gardeners DVDs. 'He' spoiled me rotten and got me lots of fun things too, one of which is a special bike computer which will tell me the time, temperature, speed and distance cycled (all very encouraging things), I haven't been on my bike for a few weeks so I suspect it'll be like starting all over again.

We spent Christmas in Yorkshire this year, my first ever Christmas away from family, and although strange it was very relaxing. We had glorious weather on both Christmas Day and Boxing Day and so Boxing Day we walked round some of the Bolton Abbey estate. It wasn't a garden as such but there was so much wildlife and we decided that we would plant a tree as soon as we got home to encourage wildlife into our garden - we think we'll go for a crab apple local to the area. When we got back I went straight out to the garden and all is in order, the water butt is very full and I have lots of digging over to be done, I think i might get some good rich farm manure to dig in before i start planting - heres to a great veg patch in 2009!

Its Christmas already!

The garden has been somewhat neglected again recently, shopping and visiting family has taken up the majority of daylight over the past few weekends, although i had a fascinating conversation with the man in the Holt bird ventures shop (well worth a visit) http://www.birdventures.co.uk/index.php is the website.

Have seen a blackbird in the garden!

Heres to a very good garden year in 2009