How am I coping? By looking at online plant catalogues!

thnx chaps. glad to know that i am not alone!

Come and live in Moray… we're having a great winter! Hardly any frost, no snow and less rain than usual!

underneath your comment there is a little dialogue box which says and i quote
"how do i say thanks?"

Lol. We did have a nice sunny day today - fine enough for OH to go up the garden and saw up a fallen branch... But its hard to imagine the ground ever being dry enough to dig in time for the early tatties... And more horrors expected tomorrow and Saturday.
But get this folks - Two days ago it was sunny and windy enough to dry the grass a little bit and we got one of the lawns cut!!! On a long cut and no grass box, but what a relief it was to reduce it from at least four inches in places. There wasn't time to collect the cuttings before the rain came again, but it was a gesture in the right direction.

bore . cheer up any day you can get out of bed . thank god with all your heart.

I started this project researching the Domesday history of a village a mile down the road. Have almost forgotten about gardening !
Its a great cheer up.

If its bad outside I get the itch to cook.......nothing complicated just some baking then a warm fragrant kitchen cheers me.....well it could be the warm scones and jam, a cup of coffee and a good book!
I do make a point of wrapping up and plodding around outside whatever the weather.......I have to walk off the baking :0)

After some badly needed renovation work was completed, every cupboard, wardrobe and drawer sorted and cleaned, floors oiled and waxed, curtains cleaned and re-hung and every ornament etc washed. Can't say I enjoyed doing it, but when the gardening weather returns I'm ready!

Hardanger embroidered bag made for daughters wedding, and parchment craft cards coming along. Family history research continues.

Snowdrops planted, apple trees pruned, hellebores tidied, birds fed and watered.

I can always find something to do so am never bored.

I'll say this quietly - I have, on two separate Sundays since Christmas, actually been turning over a neglected border, removing the solid carpet of weeds within it, in preparation for planting. It had to be Sunday because those were the only days it wasn't lashing it down. It's pretty wet, but not waterlogged, luckily, and I'm hoping to finish it off this Sunday, unless it is waterlogged by then. Not my garden though... Otherwise, I'm playing an awful lot of Scrabble on my tablet...

When I first retired, I shook out my hair roller box and replaced all the rollers in a colour co-ordinated system. Half an hour later I went back and re-organised them by size. If this weather continues I might have no find another really useless way to kill time

Blimey, Nannijii, I reckon you should take up Scrabble instead - hours and hours go by and you suddenly wonder why its dark... but in your case, you could be doing a scale drawing of your son's garden and plotting where to put stuff, lol! Always assuming the rain stops long enough to measure up in the first place, that is...

good idea Bamboo. I bet my first letters would be

two Is two Ns and an R a G and an A

Lol, raining indeed... more like two Ts, two Rs, 1E, 1 N and 1 O...

i have been watching my football team and have started tracing a long lost family member

Digginfit definitely wins so far. After reading all that I need a lie down...

Eamonn, I do, I do...

I did get into the g'house last week to pot on some new alpines, took all of an hour, before xmas I started decorating my kitchen but had to call a halt as regards the painting, now I am itching to finish but can't as its not fair to shut the pets out on these horrible days whilst the paint dries so I've sorted cupboards and drawers instead, otherwise I'm working backwards through all members photo's, something I never seem to keep up with and studied lots of catalogues for ideas......

I bet anyone who isn't actually flooded was out gardening yesterday - I certainly was, border now prepared for planting, yes!

Travelling back up from Dunblane and bird watching on the way. But we don't have a problem getting out into the garden.

Bamboo - yes, me too. Cleared all the neighbour's oak leaves from the foliage garden, and generally tidied the area

Yep me too, it was grand......

Grand, what a fab word, not much used down south, but describes perfectly how it feels to get outside and do some work... despite the back ache afterwards (well, in my case, lol)

LOL,Bamboo you've made me realise its a word I often use when I have the feelgood factor......