Wow!  I haven’t blogged for what seems like thousands of years!  Well, here I am again, all excited because the New Year’s begun and I can get on with our plans for it.  We have Mopsy’s birthday in a few weeks, then mine.  We also have a very important wedding coming up at the end of January for which the girls are being flower girls and I am doing a reading.  It’s a very, very special friend of mine getting married and I’m so excited to be able to be there with her and her husband-to-be and to be a part of it! 

I’m now branch secretary and, as we have a new chair who is a good friend of mine, it’s a nice easy job, at last!  Something I *can* do that I actually *want* to do as well!  I’m hoping to attend NCT Conference this year for the first time as it’s the closest to us it’s been and I’m really excited about that

In February I’m attending a weekend course to train me to train breastfeeding peer supporters so I’ll be able to train new ones and offer refresher training to our current ones at the support group I work at.  At the moment the peer supporters have to rely on the other BFCs within the network of groups so there’s often travelling involved for them.

I’ve ordered my organic gardening catalogue so I can order my seeds for our first veg plot!  I got some gorgeous wellies today so I tried them out by starting to dig our second plot - we’re hoping to end up with three over the next couple of years.  I can’t decide what to grow yet.  My green manure is starting to grow now on the first plot so I’m very pleased about that - hopefully that will help the atrocious soil to be a bit more helpful to the veg we grow along with all the manure I chucked in there over the autumn.  DH got a bird table for Christmas so he set that up today then sorted out the two sheds to make them more usable for the next year. 

More exciting than anything else is what’s going on as I write.  We got a doughnut maker for Christmas and DH and the girls are trying it out.  I’m very excited about eating one as they’re making a cinnamon sugar coating for them - we are all addicts of the cinnamon sugar pretzels you can buy in Cheltenham so to be able to make our own version will be very pleasing

Oh, and Cotton-tail’s 1 now