End Dec 2010

If you looked out of my upstairs spare room window you would get a great overview of my garden (and some of the neighbours); you would also get, at the time of writing, a sense of the misery of winter in its dampest and greyest form – not the sparkling cold but sunny landscape in the distance, or even like a couple of weeks ago a fresh blanket of snow, this is fog and damp and grey with seriously impaired visibility. A day like today does, however, make the advent of a cold and sunny winter day all the more appealing as at least you can escape the cabin fever and get outside without the fear of turning the lawn into a mud-bath. Grass grows at 10 Degrees C and that certainly seems a long way off right now but with the harshest start to winter in living memory preceded by what can only be described as a half hearted attempt at summer any sign of the end of winter would be welcome – oh dear, it’s not even January yet!