Good intentions

Start of academic year, autumn pretty much here, bit of a steep curve up to Christmas, time for some resolutions.

• Have bought a vegan cookbook to make a vegan recipe a week

• Will try for 3 blocks of 15 mins exercise a week (setting the bar v low)
• Will try to look out for locally sourced Christmas presents

Last time I set some resolutions I didn't keep them.  But the nature of being hopeful is to just start again.

And finally saw this today, and I just like it.

Dog Poet Transmitting....... 'May your noses always be cold and wet'

Gardening

I find gardening very therapeutic, but getting new plants is becoming addictive.  It's interesting to think about the garden in different stages, and to attempt to get colour & interest throughout the year.

My garden is at its best in early spring; there are lots of bulbs, and also spring flowers on the gravel area such as pulmonaria & aquilegia which spring up every year.

I'm now trying to introduce some more colour for summer, and also to improve the soil which is a fairly heavy clay.

The pond has been a big success I think, and has given me lots of pleasure looking at the snails, newts, frogs & water beetles zooming around. 

In a couple of weeks I'm going to get some shrubs pulled out that don't seem to support much.  And possibly I'll get a greenhouse, if I can bear to spend the vast price they cost.

Ideally at some point the garden will be perfect, and the weather will then become perfect for enjoying it.  I can but dream.