Well here's the weather!!!!!

Well here I am. I am well now, not quite 100% but to be honest whoever is at this time of year. I started back at work at the beginning of this week and had lots of stuff to catch up on at home so haven't had time to sit down and write....plus I have still been kind of tired in the evenings!!

Winter Sun.

The week I was off work and not fit to do much at all had some rain and wind but also had some wonderful sunny days and yet all I could do was longingly look out the window as I knew I would be a very silly person to go to the allotment and get anything done. It was cold but not too cold and the conditions would have been ideal. All I kept thinking about was that little bit of winter digging that I had left to do but I was a very good patient (which doesn't happen very often!) and stayed indoors in the warmer temperatures. Of course this was the 47th week of the year and I realise how fast time is running out for 2012.

Jack Frost has come to play!

This past week has been much colder and there have been frosts most evenings. Last night as I left work around 6 it was already below freezing...not good temperatures for gardening at all. This morning however when I awoke the sky had clouded over listed the temperatures slightly but it is miserable and damp which often makes it feel colder and we keep getting light rain. I don't particularly like the cold but I would sooner have a cold dry day than a damp one that is just a few degrees warmer yet seeps into your bones. Having said all that it is pretty calm out and we haven't had the rain that a lot of people have had so I am grateful for our calmer elements.

On a positive not however last weekend was the annual dinner for the allotments which I attended for the first time. My Hubby came to though he isn't a gardener. It was a nice evening with good food at the local pub and to make the night extra great not only did I win on the raffle ( I picked shortbread because I love it so much!) but I also won third prize in the best kept allotment competition. This is two up from last year and came with a £15 cash prize which I have already spent on some seed ready for next year. After all next year is going to be THE year for the gardener....well we can all have dreams can't we!!

Well I think that's all for now...plenty to tell you yet but I have to catch up with all my other blogs and also have to go and collect a shipment of manure this morning too...the joys of gardening, lol!
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