The days are getting slightly longer and the very early snowdrops have been out for some weeks now. Then suddenly they are all there and we are turning the corner. So familiar and welcome, but not a native apparently, the story is they arrived from central and eastern Europe. Don’t we love them so, renewing and rekindling another miraculous nature’s cycle turning again.
Rain or shine, snow or hail and deluge, like Audrey Hepburn being pulled from the Tiber in ‘Roman Holiday’, they are supremely elegant, graceful and beautiful at all times!
The marmalade was also good.
January 2026
