I am so sorry that there have been no posts for such a long time! I had planned the 12 Days of Christmas series to take me nicely through my alpine holiday and thought I could use some of my holiday time to prepare this week’s posts. What do they say about the best laid plans? On day two of my holiday the only wifi in the resort went down and I was unable to post what I had prepared or work on anything new. It was very frustrating, but diid result in an unplanned holiday from technology.
Whilst I write I hope you will enjoy a few of my camera photos from our week in Morillon and Sameon.
As Twelfth Night has long since passed, I feel the time has come to move on and abandon the Christmas series. January is upon us and there are lots of new things to talk about.
The weather in the UK sounded terrible whilst we were away, but it has been mild and sunny since our return a couple of days ago. The springlike temperatures have prompted me to start making lists of jobs to be done and I have even managed a few hours weeding and tidying in the borders.
I have also been clearing out the greenhouse in preparation for the new sowing season. I have my notebooks out ready to plan my Cutting Garden for 2014 and I am finalising plans for this years sweet peas – more about that next week.
I love this time of the year – January feels so peaceful after the hectic pace of the Christmas holidays and I relish the opportunity to take time to make plans for the rest of the gardening year.
I will be back next week to fill you in on how I am getting on – as well as sowing sweet peas and ordering seeds there are roses, dahlias and chrysanthemums to plan and some new peonies and perennials to be ordered.
And in the midst of the flurry of plans and border preparations there is an exciting season of winter blooms to photograph with my new lens (a Canon 50mm f/1.4 for any other shutterbugs – a much desired Christmas present from my lovely husband).
I am very glad to be back and hope to have your company for a new year in the garden!
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Sorry not to have had your remaining ‘days of Christmas’, but I am sure a long break from technology was a worthwhile exercise and gave you the chance to focus on lots of other things instead! Look forward to following your lens experiments in 2014!
Thank you Cathy – I am glad to see you here – it feels like I have been away for a long time!
Good to see you back ‘in business’. Love the pictures of the shops and snow.
I am making use of all the wet ground and sunny days to dig through awful rubble patch in good aspect. Daughter’s boyfriend brought me 2 sacks of horse manure today so very encouraged! Looking forward to more posts.
Pam
I am glad to hear you are keeping busy Pam! Thank you for finding time to stop by – I am very jealous of the boyfriend that turns up with horse manure – I think you should start planning your daughter’s wedding. You can grow all the flowers for it in that new border you are digging!