Amateur Gardening

Give the garden some festive love

I love the hustle and bustle and hurly-burly of Christmas and the extended holiday season, but amongst it all I also need to get out into the garden and take deep breaths of cold fresh air - even if it’s raining!

I also need to step away, even for a short while, from the food and drink and socialising and take myself outside to do some gentle gardening. Because while the festivities make some sort of a break in routine for most of us, to the garden and its inhabitants (floral, feathered and

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