Slowing down ... stopped

The plan to slow down on the gardening front approaching Christmas occurred rather abruptly late last Thursday when I pulled some back muscles. Annoyingly, I wasn’t doing anything particularly taxing at the time, just carrying two large trugs with green waste in them. It was seriously painful and the journey from Snowshill to home was very uncomfortable. I had planned working on the Friday but that just didn’t happen.

So, all paid customer work together with my National Trust work for 2013  has finished. Plans to attend to my own garden and allotment haven’t happened due to the back issue plus some bad weather.

Last week I enjoyed the church Christmas lunch at the AppleTree pub in Woodmancote, and this week another Christmas lunch was enjoyed with the colleagues from the National Trust. Venue was the Fleece Inn at Bretforton near Evesham. The place is some 500-600 years old with seriously low doors, but full of character. The village also has some beautiful looking period properties, worthy of a proper visit, combined with a pub lunch perhaps in early 2014.

I am looking forward to recharging my gardening ‘batteries’ over Christmas. I have some plans to overhaul part of our back garden in the New Year. A recent visit to the allotment suggests that the ground is at the point where more mess and damage is likely to occur if any work is attempted on the soil.