Seasonal Notes - January 2026
Well, I’m ashamed to say I didn’t get very far with my seasonal notes posts last year did I? Or indeed any posts at all! 2025 turned out to be a remarkably busy year where we were away in total for about five and a half months. This is not conducive to domestic life or indeed maintaining and enjoying the garden. I have declared to whoever is listening that this year I want to be more home-based so I can get on top of things, can develop some routines and actually enjoy living here rather than it being a quick pit stop before rushing off somewhere else. I fear the universe will have other plans for me - it always does - but I am keeping my fingers crossed. The weather here has been quite ghastly since a brief very cold patch in early January when we actually had a bit of snow and some glorious blue skies. Gone are the days that snow was a given here in January, I’m sad to say. Global warming has meant that instead of seasonal snow, we tend to get just howling winds and pouring rai...
