Excitement there is none.......

 

Well, not a great deal of exciting stuff happening in this neck of the woods this last week, but plenty of good everyday things never the less.

Plenty of walks, sometimes wet, sometimes snowy


 

 

 

 

 

plenty of hanging around indoors with a good book or two

 

sitting and dreaming of warmer days.........

 

of being outside in the fresh air...............

relaxing in the garden..........................

in a favourite place.........

sigh...........

Where were we?  

Oh yes,hanging out in the warm kitchen, cooking and thinking about cooking

 

and the odd glass of wine - and oh look, the paint tins are out to remind me to finish painting the kitchen cupboards that I started a year ago.....(note to self - must get back on with the many half-finished painting jobs soon before spring....)

 

there have been lots of warm fires

 

and a trip to the sales - bought a few new bathroom towels, a lovely soft warm throw for the sofa and a letter rack for the hall

 

 

..........and outside, I've had a few cold afternoons pottering around the garden tidying and clearing.

A little bit of colour in the garden sends a hopeful message on these cold grey days, and there are signs of good things to come .......some colourful primulas, which have been flowering since autumn, are right by the front door to cheer me on my way

 

 

 

and I found some lovely bright cyclamens and some sweet blue violas at the garden centre (see above and below)

 

 

as well as some half-price herbs, which I have bought in the hope that they will survive the wait in the unheated greenhouse until it is a little less cold and I can put them in

 

thyme, rosemary, sage and parsley, marjoram and oregano - all of these waiting to be planted, and just typing the names make me dream of warm summers, and the scent of fragrant flowers and herbs in the garden.............

Despite the cold snap we had here a few weeks before Christmas, and the snow we've woken to the last two mornings (generally thawed by lunch time), a few summer plants have hung in there much to my surprise.

A lone, brave marigold in the border, looking a bit ragged but still blooming....

And the trailing lobelia and petunias, planted in hanging baskets in the early summer months

and then left,  in-situ, forlorn and forgotten throughout frosts and snow, are amazingly still green and alive - I wonder whether they will manage to flower again?

Marmalade making with a friend this week too - so lots of good everyday stuff happening.


Roll on Spring I say - that will be excitement enough for me!

 

Are you doing anything exciting????