What a Beautiful Weekend

After the appalling weather of last weekend, this weekend was gorgeous. It was warm, sunny and best of all, today I spent all day in the garden. Gardening is my therapy and comes a close second to dog showing. Dogs and Gardening dont always go together (how many plants have I lost because of a dog chasing the cat across the garden!!) but on the whole the two go together well, I garden and the dogs enjoy 'helping' me - they love being with me and Alan and they love being outside for the whole day.

Anyway, the garden. It's never looked so good (if you ignore the lack of grass caused by the three months of rain last winter) many plants have self seeded due to the warm winter, perennials have bloomed early,








the gaps and sight of earth is rapidly deminishing!



...and the veggie patch! Well, this has got to be one of this years BIG success stories. We are growing Mayan Gold, Yukon Gold and Pink Fur Apple potatoes, carrots, parnips, kohl rabi, celeriac, spinach, beetroot, peas, mangetout, runner beans, dwarf beans, aubergine, sweetcorn, butternet squash, chilli's, tomatoes, peppers, leeks, onions, artichokes, cauliflower, cabbage, sprouts, purple sprouting brocolli, loads of varieties of salad leaves and this doesnt include the numerous fruit bushes and trees and the herbs we grow. The warm soil, the warm weather and more recently the sun and showers have started off a brilliant collection of veggies - and in a few weeks time we can reap the rewards of our efforts.

What a shame I have to go back to 'the company' tommorow to have my soul and character chipped away at even more - what a shame I cant just stay in my beautiful garden surrounded by my wonderful animals instead of sitting in a ghost town of an office surrounded by a complete bunch of idiots!