Gardening

The gardening "season" is with us again. Well, I mean the longer days at least, and the valiant attempts by both gardeners and plants to produce a harvest of sorts before the other inhabitants of our garden thwart us in a fiendish variety of ways.
As usual the Blackthorn winter brings us cold weather, ie snow as usual, which means frustration for gardeners, who always want it to be warmer than it is. ADVICE: keep warm when you're outside. It's all too easy to work up a sweat and then get cold in the wind. That often leads to back problems. And try to divide your tasks up so you don't attempt to do too much at once. Fatigue and cold is not a good combination!

Book table

Thanks again to everyone who has brought books in, and those who've bought them!
Our recent support has been to a charity called Mobility India, which helps people with disabilities, supplying prostheses, training etc to the poor in India (£120) and to the Devon Wildlife Trust (£80). Our charity of the moment is Rokpa, which supports Tibetan healthcare and educational projects in Tibet. The UK branch of Rokpa is based on Samye Ling Tibetan monastery in Scotland.