A Lovely Valentine`s Day

Hello Everyone,

Welcome to a lovely sunny day. Maybe we`re in for an early spring, I really hope so.  We`ve been quite busy at work this week, the nicer weather has brought the customers in for their Spring plants and bulbs, also it`s the time to sow seeds for flowers and vegetables so it`ll get really busy before too long.  It`s so nice to see the flowers ready for the new season and the customers are giving me lots of ideas for my own planting and I can`t wait to get started, even though there`s a lot of work to do out there. Jim bought me a climbing red rose for Valentines Day, so thoughtful and just what I wanted.  It`s highly fragranced and flowers over and over again and I can`t wait to seeing it start to grow, it`s just well pruned sticks at the moment and certainly not much to look at. I also bought a Sarcococca, a plant I`d never heard of before but it has the most divine scent from it`s tiny white flowers. It also has beautiful glossy dark green leaves, and if it does well I`ll buy a couple more as I adore scented flowers.

                               

Jim and I bought each other Valentine cards and I gave him some Thorntons chocolate hearts. We don`t usually buy presents but as I said he bought me the rose which was a lovely surprise, something that he never fails to do. This morning when walking Jake in Black Park he collected some rotten wood compost from the woodland floor so I can use it for planting the Sarcococca, now that was a very thoughtful thing to do. How many other men do you know that would bring home a bag of compost for their wives....lol!

                                

Last weekend Danny`s girlfriend Salina has gone away with her family to visit family on the other side of the world, she`ll be gone a month and Danny is missing her already.  He`s been unwell since Sunday, some sort of virus I think, and went back to work today despite not feeling 100%. I asked him to stay home but he said he`d rather keep busy, he`s a bit like his dad in that respect, `a good work ethic` as my late dad used to call it.  Not listening to Mother is what I call it...lol!

                                      

Our roof is now repaired, not by a roofer or a handy man, no it was Jim and his mate Steve who did it between them. They went up in the loft and fitted the tile back in place...it took then just five minutes and saved Jim £50. That was on Sunday afternoon and that evening and the whole of Monday it poured with rain, that what I call good timing.  Anyway, I must run now. Kerry will be here with Roman any minute now.  I hope you`ve all had lovely Valentines cards and maybe even pressies. Bye for now. :o)