AriesVal wrote in
o.uk:

My poor garden looks like it's covered in Christmas cake icing - so
pretty but I doubt my October planted red onions will survive it but
the leeks seem to be OK although the ground is too hard to dig them up
!

Our Christmas plans have done a 180 degrees turn about! We were going
to our son in West Sussex along with our DIL's parents but since then
DIL's father has taken been taken ill and cannot travel. So our son
and family are coming here instead and suddenly I have it all to do!
but I don't mind. I may be getting rather long in the tooth but
there's still life in the old dog yet.

My Tony isn't too well tho - has a very bad chesty cough, so bad that
the doc has put him on steroids (6 a day), antibiotics, and also an
inhaler! All this on top of his kidney problems, he's also anaemic
and needing intravenous iron injections, so just as well we aren't
travelling anywhere in this cold weather. But, whatever, we're
planning to go all out and enjoy being with our family and to enjoy
this Christmas.

Looking forward to the New Year and what it may bring, and Wishing you
all a Happy and Healthy Christmas.


Hope you both perk up soon. Don't forget that this is a very servere winter
and it is hard even for the fittest of us so don't fret too much.
Half the people I know have a cough recently, must be something going
around, Tony seems to have it worse than most from what you say.
Keep warm and ride it out. Lets hope for an early spring.

BTW my leeks are a soggy mess from what I can see under semi-melted snow
and a layer of ice. As for onions we never even had the chance to set them.

Baz