I don't really know where to start, or indeed what to say. It's been a long, long time since I last posted. 2021 has been a year that has, let's just say, taken it's toll, and a year that I will be glad to see the back of.
It's also been a year of good things happening. Re-connecting with old friends and family. Bex partner Matt joining the work team in March, and subsequently Four Seasons now being able to support two households. Improvements on the house happening.
Covid has blanketed life generally with a new way of existing, and one which I don't feel will go away. People have become polarised in the way that they deal with it. I have become more confrontational, angrier, more tired.
Customers have been extraordinary in their understanding of the pressures we have faced as a gardening team. Bex and Matt operating as an individual pair, and coping brilliantly with the new challenges to face.
We both have had more free time to not just get out more, semi retire if you like, but to try to figure out how we now go forward into the next phase of our life. The campervan hasn't really progressed as we had hoped. Too much 'stuff' clobbering us this year. Must make some headway over the Christmas period so we can head out a bit more next year. The plan is to spend New Years night on Creech Hill under the stars. Plenty of blankets and hot chocolate needed for that one!
We've had lot's of beach and forest walks, where shells and sea glass have been collected in abundance, plant life and lichens pressed in my homemade industrial flower press. Pictures of our various projects to follow I expect.
Picture below is at one of our favourite spots, Craig Goch Dam in the Elan Valley. It's been home to us a few times this year. A real escape.
I'll try and do a Christmassy post soon, but for now please, all of you, have a beautiful and blessed Christmas.
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