With another Christmas over, the benefits of great friends that have dissipated to far flung reaches of the planet decend on our small hometown to visit family and friends and we are reunited in the local pubs we all drank in as youngsters. Stories fly around with a garbled drunken recollection of facts and situations we all found ourselves in in our youthful years and i have spent quite a long time pondering this Christmas how the hell we all survived it and came our relatively unscarred! The sad truth is we all move on in one form or another, whether it might not be physically, perhaps just as people. It is something we all go through as we stumble and fall through life's wicked roller coaster but there is something to be said for not seeing friends for sometimes up to 2 years or more and being able to take off where you left all that time ago without even an ounce of awkwardness or struggled silence, then you know, what good friends truly are.
Our fireplace at home this year.
I decided to make both hams this year (earlier recipe on previous blog post) The one on the left is the honey and wholegrain mustard and the one on the right the jamie oliver jerk ham (recipe also on previous blog post)
You can just see Hendrix our dog waiting in anticipation in the background :)
And this was after he got his grubby little paws on some.
So...........with December out of the way and into January the 3rd it was the first day back at work and my body clock not wanting me to miss my alarm this morning very kindly awoke me at 5am. With it being not the best day outside thoughts turned to what i could be doing inside and as we got our delivery of pots for the surfinias and begonia plugs to go into just before Christmas i thought it would be a good job to do indoors, setting them out and seeing if they all actually fit in the greenhouses/polytunnel! Well the good news is....they do! Quite exciting having a glimpse of how many plants are going to be set out, as there is only so much you can muster with your imagination. The pak choi and chioggia beetroot are coming on a storm in the polytunnel and our arts and crafts department i.e. myself and lydia are busy beavering away making lots of nice things to sell come May. So my only real problem is, May can just not come soon enough. We have also been putting out messages on platforms such as Facebook to try and acquire a more permanent home for The Soul Patch as we yet again become homeless in June but we have had some initial ideas from some lovely people so lets hope something stems out from that. Anyway below is a piccy of greenhouse 1 and below the polytunnel to show how we are getting along with it all. A very Happy New Year to you all and may it be prosperous for all x
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