Thinking about the garden
Gardening in January is a miserable thing. Paths are muddy, soil is cold, and all those things you didn't cut down in the autumn so as to be wildlife friendly and which you hoped would stand whorled with frost against a low sun droop and drip sadly in a soggy, bedraggled tangle. All the talk about winter gardens and structure which you can ignore in the summer when your garden is flowering its socks off comes back to haunt you. Yes you do need the hardlandscaping and paths you can't find the time or money to sort out. Yes indeed, you should have more evergreens. I usually cope with January by staying inside by the stove. This year in particular I have been knitting. I made a Moebius cowl, partly because I loved my first neck warmer so much and partly because I have always been fascinated by the Moebius strip which apparently has no beginning and no end. Actually knitting one was amazing. I still don't really understand how it w...