Eat Brussels Sprouts

I never eat Brussels sprouts unless I really have to – even at Christmas.  But I have been eating these. My great-niece obviously does like sprouts as she told me that she and her cousin (my younger great-nephew) had a “sprout off” at Christmas – who could eat the most, I assume?  She said:  he…

Mild winter or Global Warming?

Or maybe global warming leading to a mild winter?  It has certainly had a weird effect in my garden.  I had a rose out on 1st January.  It wasn’t perfect but it was fully out. This one, from the same rose bush, was open in the middle of January.  Also in the middle of January…