Ah winter, I see you, stealthily freezing the world

Hubby went food shopping ........ I said we needed red cabbage .........

More progress in the front garden on Thursday. I lifted the last of the slabs on this area and put in a stone edge to retain the existing gravel in front of the wall. This area will get planted up soon with lots of perennials and bulbs for year round interest. David also cut down the unsightly hand rail which narrows the path to the house and ironically makes it awkward for getting in and out. Now its gone its really opened up the garden and I can get on with fixing the path to make it safe as its un-even and the slabs are loose.

Last Thursday saw me at the Christmas shopping evening at Whitmuir. Good to catch up with folk, but I wasn't feeling great so was glad to get home to a warm house. The Wood Oven Wonders pizza was great though, and I'll be having one of those again.

Friday and into the nursery to get the wildflower meadow strimmed and the bank behind the railway. All good progress and a good job for a colder winter's day. But we are both feeling under the weather so didn't get as much done as we would have liked. We then lost nearly two weeks to being ill then the world froze and was covered with snow, so now very behind with winter jobs in the nursery.

Finally I got the christmas cake finished having started it 4 days previously. 3 of those days were spent in bed feeling very ill, I'm never ill so this was startling and I slept most of it. Never felt that bad in my life, one of these horrible flu things that are going around. Its a week later and I'm still not feeling 100% and now David has it so we really havent got everything we'd hoped to do at home or at the nursery. The mincemeat is done too and both are maturing away in the big cupboard.

ah- ha winter - First snow

A freezing walk along the Tweed, not far, both of us still feeling under the weather. Beautiful reflections briefly as the sun came out over a dead flat calm river

Plasterer is coming next week to fix one of the walls in the entrance hall at the back door. So we've had to remove the built in cupboard which uncovered these old treasures. Wall paper, a really thick plastic border on the wall above the wall paper and a piece of old lino.

Once the plastering is done we can decorate in there and the halls will be finished. Will also be good to get some coat hooks up and shoe racks sorted. Watch this space for the next room make over.

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