excited for your longer days :-) here the days are getting shorter and shorter, but the days are still nice and warm so we can't complain. A lunchtime walk is a great idea and yes, I need to be mindful of making sure I get enough sunlight in those shorter days as well. My workplace is actually close to a river walkway, so maybe I should do that when I get a chance!
Oh a river walk sounds lovely as long as it’s not raining!! Definitely do try & get out when the sun is at its highest during the winter, it really helped me. Clocks have just gone forward so it didn’t get dark till gone 8pm today! I can’t remember if you get daylight savings in NZ.
Behind but ahead is definitely a win. I'm behind and behind, compared to last year, because we've been having infrastructure work done in the garden and for some reason that has stopped me sowing seeds. No idea why! The dark winters do take some getting used to. Perhaps because I was born and grew up in north east Scotland, I actually love them, and slightly mourn the long dark nights as they have their own beauty. But the growing daylight is a thing of wonder too.
Oh I know that feeling well, I was behind last year because the raised beds weren't quite finished, even though they would be by the time would come for anything to be planted out plus, I'd managed perfectly well the year before without beds! Any excuse right? I'm from the deep South by comparison then, in Kent, then we moved to Yorkshire. What I have noticed is that the winter days are marginally shorter while the summer days are wildly longer.
Hello, Han, it’s been awhile since I’ve not been much of an online presence lately. My wife and I feel colder than at any time this past winter. We think it’s because of the changeable weather. On Tuesday and Wednesday this past week we had highs of about 24 degrees C, and the past couple days it’s only gotten up to around 6 degrees during the daytime. These old bones of ours apparently can’t handle such rapid fluctuations and the atmospheric pressure changes that are part of the package. I’m not seeing anything plantlike growing or blooming at all, and it’s just too cold for me to work in my basement shop. I’m planning to convert a seven-string guitar kit to a mandocello and document it on this platform once it warms up. No video, just photos and text, as I don’t have a real camera. Nice reading your thoughts about the coming spring and your garden, and all the nature springing up around you. Thanks especially for the lovely photos. I’ve been to the Southern Hemisphere, but I’ve never been as far north as where you are. Best wishes, and make sure you plant lots of yummy tomatoes. Enjoy them, since I can’t have them anymore, except once in a great while, since they’re very bad for arthritics. Nitey-nite!
Hi Rafael, lovely to hear from you. Sorry to hear you’re both feeling the cold at the moment - I do think the sharp changes in temperature make it harder. One day it’s moderate, the next freezing again - although of course it’s much colder with you. Oh I’m surprised nothings blooming yet - is that usual? Everything’s is coming at pace now here.
excited for your longer days :-) here the days are getting shorter and shorter, but the days are still nice and warm so we can't complain. A lunchtime walk is a great idea and yes, I need to be mindful of making sure I get enough sunlight in those shorter days as well. My workplace is actually close to a river walkway, so maybe I should do that when I get a chance!
Oh a river walk sounds lovely as long as it’s not raining!! Definitely do try & get out when the sun is at its highest during the winter, it really helped me. Clocks have just gone forward so it didn’t get dark till gone 8pm today! I can’t remember if you get daylight savings in NZ.
Behind but ahead is definitely a win. I'm behind and behind, compared to last year, because we've been having infrastructure work done in the garden and for some reason that has stopped me sowing seeds. No idea why! The dark winters do take some getting used to. Perhaps because I was born and grew up in north east Scotland, I actually love them, and slightly mourn the long dark nights as they have their own beauty. But the growing daylight is a thing of wonder too.
Oh I know that feeling well, I was behind last year because the raised beds weren't quite finished, even though they would be by the time would come for anything to be planted out plus, I'd managed perfectly well the year before without beds! Any excuse right? I'm from the deep South by comparison then, in Kent, then we moved to Yorkshire. What I have noticed is that the winter days are marginally shorter while the summer days are wildly longer.
Hello, Han, it’s been awhile since I’ve not been much of an online presence lately. My wife and I feel colder than at any time this past winter. We think it’s because of the changeable weather. On Tuesday and Wednesday this past week we had highs of about 24 degrees C, and the past couple days it’s only gotten up to around 6 degrees during the daytime. These old bones of ours apparently can’t handle such rapid fluctuations and the atmospheric pressure changes that are part of the package. I’m not seeing anything plantlike growing or blooming at all, and it’s just too cold for me to work in my basement shop. I’m planning to convert a seven-string guitar kit to a mandocello and document it on this platform once it warms up. No video, just photos and text, as I don’t have a real camera. Nice reading your thoughts about the coming spring and your garden, and all the nature springing up around you. Thanks especially for the lovely photos. I’ve been to the Southern Hemisphere, but I’ve never been as far north as where you are. Best wishes, and make sure you plant lots of yummy tomatoes. Enjoy them, since I can’t have them anymore, except once in a great while, since they’re very bad for arthritics. Nitey-nite!
Hi Rafael, lovely to hear from you. Sorry to hear you’re both feeling the cold at the moment - I do think the sharp changes in temperature make it harder. One day it’s moderate, the next freezing again - although of course it’s much colder with you. Oh I’m surprised nothings blooming yet - is that usual? Everything’s is coming at pace now here.