Moving from the North East to the South East, I presumed that the weather would be warmer, that the chill of winter would be less bitter. But no. It has been a cold couple of months here at Domsey Chase. The warehouse is suitable for hanging meat, and the office printer froze. But it has given us a great opportunity to work on the website and the product ranges.
Regulars will notice a huge amount of exciting new products and some really supreme prices on the site. We had a great response to our birdcare offer in February and now we’re focussing on a ‘Grow your own’ theme for Spring, with some terrific promotions to our Newsletter subscribers.
Every year at about this time, with my enquiring children, I spend a very messy afternoon filling up seed trays with compost, sowing the seeds, labelling each one, adding a little water and finding a suitable spot in the conservatory or by the boiler on the kitchen windowsill. It is huge fun. And week by week we inspect their progress, watching with excitement the process of germination. I never cease to be amazed, and it gives me such a thrill to know that soon winters course will have run and the slender shoots of life will quickly burst-out over the garden.
So we are astonished as those tiny seeds change into green plants with flamboyant flowers, radiating with colour and sweet smells. Our reward for bearing the bitter chill and ghosts of winter has nearly begun.
James
