A Fresh Start.

Viburnum

Another new year has begun. I’m full of good intentions as usual. I’ll try and write something most days even if nothing particularly interesting is occurring. I didn’t get up today until about 11.00. That’s because I was up late last night watching Jools Holland’s annual Hootenanny. I didn’t think it was very good this year and gave up on it before the end and watched Rod Stewart at Glastonbury 2025 on BBC 1. I witnessed that performance at Glasto and it didn’t improve by watching it on the television either. It was a nice sunny, but cold morning when I did emerge. The News headline was terrible with a deadly fire at a Swiss ski resort. To get some fresh air I ventured down the garden to see how my fish were. They seemed quite happy in their little watery pooliverse. I topped up the pond and gave them some food. 

Snow Dance

Apart from that it looked quite desolate in the garden as you would expect in the bleak midwinter. Three plants lifted my spirits. There was a nice viburnum shrub covered in white flowers, a Helleborus called Snow Dance, and by the back door an attractive evergreen with red foliage called Skimmia. I took their photos before I came in out of the cold. I did notice when I was out there that the fence is in a shocking state of disrepair. My little shed is beginning to fall apart as well. That is a couple of jobs for me to do before Spring, if I can get motivated. At 3.00 I put on Talksport Radio because my team Peterborough United (The Posh) were playing away to Rotherham. Posh won 0-2 and moved up to 11^th in the table. There is a new series of Traitors starting tonight at 8.00, so that will be my evening’s entertainment. I wonder what tomorrow will bring.

Skimmia.