Cheering News!

hi bamboo sounds good, cant wait till spring when we see the daffs -tulips - snow drops. coming up

I'm counting the minutes daily, lol! Always helps me through the rest of winter, doing that...

I always look forward to "yesterday" spring cannot be that far away after the shortest day. They had seed potatoes in the local garden center this morning!!

I'm just glad we're out of November, my most hated month of the year - not keen on January either, but I'd rate that second worst.

Lovely cheery news Bamboo, love the photo too... is this your garden?

No, it's a client's - although I did it... (not the paving, got a man to do that!)

I thought today was the shortest ! Gawd that means summer will be here in no time...Is it still SAD if you get fed up of sunshine and anything above 15 degrees?

Ha ha - well I guess some people would call it that, but as in sad, lower case, not an acronym. Some confusion always about the shortest day - winter solstice is the 21st December, the longest night.

Thanks, Bamboo for the many useful, interesting answers you've given this year for Questions on GoY. Merry Christmas. xxx

The actual moment of the solstice when then sun moves into Capricorn varies between late evening on 21 and early morning on 22 December. This year if I have understood correctly it was at 3am today.

Hence the confusion about the shortest day - really we're talking about the longest night, aren't we, rather than the shortest day - they're not quite the same thing.

I always feel better once the sun has 'turned'. The idea is good for my psyche, if nothing else.
But, it was a beautiful day today with temperatures even here of 12 C at lunchtime. Lucky to get that in summer, sometimes! Things are looking up!
Happy Christmas and great gardening in 2012!

Lovely here too today - at 10.30 this morning, there was a huge bumble bee buzzing about outside, the sort of thing I usually see in about March - poor thing, it's not spring yet...

Ha..Bamboo, it's funny that it is OK to hate the Winter and dread it. But not Summer..I honestly dread Summer, even the weather reports about where got the most hours of sunshine. This year was not as bad as most, still glad when October arrives.

The flowers are the only thing about it I look forward to.

\0/\0/\0/ hurray --past the shortest day-- Thanks for reminding me Bamboo-- have a lovely christmas and happy, healthy 2012....xxx

Keep the home, ummm, fluorescents burning! : )

Merry Christmas to you too! We had a gorgeous day in Worcestershire today, with festive and farmer's markets in all towns. Did a bit of a drive about - Banbury, stratford, evesham, hereford - all very christmassy and lovely. Yesterday, I was removing weed seedlings, and finding perlargoniums still budding - amazing for this time of year, especially after last year's snow and ice.

Pimpernel - I know what you mean about summer - I like it when its no more than 20/21 deg. C - anything over that I now find intolerable. Specially in London, where a couple of days of high temperatures and no wind means photosynthetic smog makes your eyes sting, your throat burn, and means more use of the old ventolin pump... and staying indoors with the windows shut, oh deep joy...

And I'll add Happy New Year to everyone, as well as getting through Christmas without too many disagreements or disappointments - personally, I find the whole thing totally exhausting... even though I like tinsel, lol

I don't get SAD in the winter, it's the only time I get to GROW MY NAILS LOL
Have a Happy Christmas All
Luv Jackie xx

thanx for that bamboo i think you can smell the change of seasens . just tell .im normaly terribble but A its not over and B dont ment something that aint broken lol .

mend sorry lol x .