There are only two occasions that Granny Valley phones from Merthyr Tydfil before 6pm on a Sunday, one is to deliver a death message which sadly she did last week and the other is shortly after the final whistle of the Wales v England Six Nations game, this year the game is at The Millennium Stadium and I haven’t dared ask her if the roof is off or on. The exact timings for the latter can go either way depending on how her boys have played and you can guarantee that during th

I’m not really a big fan of February but it’s a short month and there’s now only 3 weeks to go until my favourite month. January was a d r a g and seemed to have more Mondays than the entire summer however the mornings are getting brighter, the days are getting longer and the garden is showing signs that Spring is well and truly on its way. Although the snow at the weekend hid rather a lot but when it melted the dainty snowdrops, crocus and daffodils were peeping through.

I’m not really a big fan of February but it’s a short month and there’s now only 3 weeks to go until my favourite month. January was a  d r a g  and seemed to have more Mondays than the entire summer however the mornings are getting brighter, the days are getting longer and the garden is showing signs that Spring is well and truly on its way. Although the snow at the weekend hid rather a lot but when it melted the dainty snowdrops, crocus and daffodils were peeping through. T