Merry Christmas!

Sadly I don't have a picture of the Malvern Hills in the snow, so here's a view of just around the corner from this time last year instead. Happy Christmas everyone :)

Merry Christmas!

To everyone who met at Malvern this year:

May your fire be toasty

And your chestnuts roasty

May your snowman be Frosty

And your gifts not get losty

May you be hale and hearty

And those sprouts not too f@rty

And to see you in 2011

Would be absolute heaven

...proving I'm still the Queen of Bad Poetry ;)

Here's to a wonderful Christmas and a prosperous New Year to you and yours :)

To Absent Friends...

I had a rather nice surprise on Wednesday morning when the above card arrived from the Garden Fairie. She wishes us well for Malvern (shame you can't be here) and says hello to everyone, especially Gail and Frances who are flying the flag for Team USA.

Her kind thought is an ideal opportunity to send greetings to all the garden bloggers out there who can't join us at Malvern and to hope there's another time when we can meet for real rather than virtually :)

Shirls has also been in touch and wishes us well over at her blog. She also has a special request for all Malvern Meeters: she has a tulip festival on at the moment until 14th May and would love to see any photos of the tulips we encounter at the show. Last year the tulip displays were spectacular, so let's go and find them!

The picture is not of a tulip, but of an Erythronium americanum aka yellow dog-tooth violet aka toad lily.