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Thanks to Wellyman for the artistic use of crab apples!
Perhaps this isn’t the best way to start off a ‘Happy New Year’ post but I’ve never been much of a fan of New Year. For me it is the least enjoyable of all the holidays. I suppose I should see the start of a new year as an important, celebratory event but for some reason I don’t understand the party spirit regarding the occasion. Maybe it’s because the new year starts in the middle of winter with the month January and of all the months it really did draw the short straw.
I admire the enthusiasm some people show at this time of year. The ‘a chance to start again’ feeling, all those resolutions, diets, exercise regimes but very few of them even last beyond January. Is it any wonder though that the spurt of energy that will greet 2012 and every other New Year is fleeting when January is such a miserable month? For me January is a month to get through and any resolutions I have I start in March when the nights are getting lighter and I feel a genuine spring in my step. This way I stand a fair chance of actually achieving them.
My resolutions for 2012 are to finally sort out the problem areas of my garden and to visit a couple of gardens that have been on my wish list for several years now. Nothing spectacular but my garden was slightly neglected last year whilst I got to grips with the allotment so I think it deserves some attention. And of course, there is my gardening without plastic challenge which might be the most difficult, we shall see.
This autumn I made a few changes to a part of the garden where we had a tree removed so I’m looking forward to seeing how that will develop and look as the plants get established. But most of all I can’t wait to get back up to my allotment and get growing again.
I would like to thank everyone who reads my blog and those who leave comments it is much appreciated. For a self-confessed technophobe the whole blogging thing has been a bit of a revelation. I’ve enjoyed tremendously discovering a lovely group of people who share their passion, thoughts, stories and tips and who make gardening, which can be quite a solitary hobby/job feel less so. I look forward to reading more of your blogs and I hope you continue to enjoy my own.
Happy New Year to you all and may 2012 bring us great gardening weather and bumper crops. Best wishes, Wellywoman x
wellywoman 
A good post to end the year. Don’t tell anyone but I don’t celebrate it either, and will probably go to bed well before midnight.
Good luck with your resolutions, I don’t make any!
This blog has become one of my firm favourites, and it’s good to know how much you enjoy blogging in general.
Thanks, and to you to! xx
Happy New Year wishes to you too!
Looking forward to reading more of your escapades next year – best wishes – let’s hope its a good one.
What I didn’t admit to on my post is that I get quite maudlin at New Year ( and it’s nothing to do with having a drink). It’s about Hogmanays past and folk that are gone and another year upon us. Not to worry I’ll be fine on 1st of January. It’s just another day…
Look forward to your posts in 2012, Welly woman.
I’ve never made new year’s resolutions, though this year I’m setting myself some challenges, I think there’s a difference between resolutions and challenges. That’s what I’m telling myself anyway. I’ve enjoyed reading your blog and look forward to many more interesting posts in to 2012. May I take this opportunity to thank you for visiting my blog over the last year and for all your comments, they’re very much appreciated. All the very best for 2012. Oh, and well done to Wellyman for his artistic use of crab apples.
I always go to bed tomorrow, so today will be same old same old. This blogging addiction is a wonderful spur to learning – how do I do that?
Happy New Year, tomorrow at least.
Excellent artistic endeavour from Wellyman. Not my favourite holiday either although it offers the chance to pause and reflect on the year gone by. I am not that keen on January but February is my real bete noir, when I am convinced that winter will never end. Glad to have discovered your blog in 2011 and look forward to hear more from you in 2012. May the new year treat you and those that you love kindly and may all that graces your garden and allotment flourish xxx
Very artistic use of crab apples!
Happy new Year!
Lea
Lovely crab apples – great idea.
I’m another ‘bah, humbug’ person about New Year – it’s just another day, really, but with added hangovers. Good luck with your plastic challenge – I’ll be interested to see how it goes. I cut back last year, but, but, but… I must do better. Now there’s a resolution I intend to keep.
Best wishes for 2012!
I’m pleased to read that I’m in good company here. I started to write a post about not celebrating new year, how my new year starts in March and then, because I was feeling very gloomy, I decided it sounded negative and deleted it! I should have come over here as your post has cheered me up no end – I totally agree with you about the so called festivities. Wishing you all the very best for 2012, it’s been a real pleasure to discover you and your blog. Caro xx
Only two things that I must try to do this year, no 1 is plant all those poor plants still sitting in their pots months after I have bought them and no 2 is to sit down and enjoy my garden more!!
Don’t really celebrate New Year, just a little drink and then in bed by 12.05am!!
Hope this year is a good one for you and your garden !
Happy New Year to you, I know what you mean about new year, I just celebrate the fact that we have got past the shortest day and lighter nights are on there way eventually! Even the sight of the first tips of snowdrops cheer me up.
Hope you have a great gardening year.
Hi Wellywoman I’ve never really liked New Years Eve and now I don’t even believe that time moves forward, because there is only now and nothing else, so I just think the whole counting down to a “new year” is odd. I was very lucky to have had one good day of weather and some allotment time that was really refreshing. Love reading your blog x
Happy New Year, and happy gardening too! x