We are now just past the halfway mark of January, and I am grateful for that. January is my least favourite month. GM's is November, but I'm OK with November.
Our next-door neighbour, Richard, popped round and gave us a hand with removing some of the dead growth in the no-man's-land behind our back fence in order to let more light into our very small growing space. Before and after pics below
Before
After
We've done as much as we can safely do with regard to the overhanging evergreens, and I've now employed the services of a qualified tree surgeon, although a date has till to be fixed, but it will be fairly soon.
I mentioned my yarn stash in my last post
I seem to have acquired rather a lot of pink!
I found the following on Facebook
One of my neighbours, who, along with her teen daughter, also crochets, mentioned a challenge that she did last year, which was to crochet a square to match the covers of all the books she read during the year. I decided to do that challenge, but slightly differently. My friend Janet and I play a weekly word game with a different book each week, so I'm intending to match a crochet square to each of the books I use for the challenge. Due to unforseen circumstances we had to miss the first week of the year, so in order to make sure that I end up with 52 squares, I've done one for my Gratitude Journal, so you get the idea.
I went on my first adventure of the year on the wettest day of the year so far. I took the train to London to have lunch with my eldest son, who is celebrating his 60th birthday! He found us a nice pub in the Little Venice area, which isn't too far to walk from Paddington.
We enjoyed lots of chat and a couple of beers each with our meal, and completely forgot to take a selfie, so he sent me this on his way home
and I sent him this on my way home
Happy birthday PJ, love you lots.
Chin up, it won't be long until spring.
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