Winter

 I am writing this on the last day of December 2023, a suitable day to look back on the previous twelve months in the churchyard. The weather has been a big factor in this years gardening, total polar opposites, very dry earlier in the year and progressively wetter as we moved through the year into Winter. There have been some successes (and a few failures) and it is our intention to build on them for next year 2024. The Sweet Pea experiment was a success however we need to build a better support framework this time. The orange Calendulas provided a lovely pop of colour in a vacant spot amongst the grave stones. Uncovering the Braddock grave was quite simply amazing and I thank the people who put so much research into the background uncovering a fascinating family history. Thank you also to the Old Glossop Community for all the bulbs planted, something to look forward to this Spring.

Thank you for reading this and also thank you to the people who pop by to say hello when we are working in the churchyard. 

Best wishes to everyone for 2024.

November leaves

 So a very wet November has passed by. Interestingly the leaves seem to have stayed on the trees longer this Autumn, I noticed this driving across Derbyshire and the colours were fantastic but eventually we get a strong enough wind and down they come. Part of our looking after the churchyard is clearing the paths and we gather up quite a number these are bagged into jute sacks and piled in our compost area, this is the second year we have done this and by this Autumn the four foot high pile had been reduced to a heap about a foot high of lovely compost all courtesy of the worms living in there so hopefully by this time next year we will have a nice pile of our own compost to use for planting up, I just need to remember to turn it occasionally.