Be Prepared.

As befits January the theme over the last few weeks has been "Be prepared!" We have started on the vegetable garden and have broken open 6 beds. Digging a clay soil in the rain never gets easy but we have the foundation for raised beds and, as I mentioned previously, we have found some mature (and large) compost heaps which will come in handy.

We have also started to get ourselves ready for next winter. To ensure we don't freeze to death the wood pile has been started in earnest. With my neighbour's help we have a respectable start. Our festive period visitors enjoyed helping in this task as it also allowed them to return to the city with their car boots filled with logs.

Further, I was able to get a one-to-one tutorial on chainsaw use which should allow me to keep the same number or digits and extremities with which I was born. On the theme of education and getting ready, today also saw my enrollment in the local college's Welsh Course. Unfortunately there are perhaps too few course members to make this viable and it may be cancelled. So,  no sooner than I have learnt to say "Dw i' newydd ddechrau dysgu Cymraeg" than I am not !