New Beginning!

After two years of happy blogging with Modblog.com, I find that Modblog has died on me and so today is a new beginning for me in the hope of finding a new circle of friends - or perhaps linking up with old friends who already use this server.

I miss very much the many younger friends I made among the Modblog bloggers and I hope to find friends of all ages visiting this new site. There is a vibrancy and freshness about the posts of younger people that give me much delight among the more solemn dissertations of the more mature.

The recent heavy rains and high winds have brought all the colourful leaves off the trees now but there are plenty of signs of Spring on its way. There are carpets of grape hyacinth and primrose leaves and, in the greenhouse, the broad beans have grown to two inches now. I don't like the early darkness that cuts short our afternoons in November but the Christmas lights are now appearing everywhere and its only three weeks to the shortest day, when the days start getting longer again. Hope springs eternal in the human breast!