A BELATED HAPPY NEW YEAR

The sun is shining and it’s a beautiful day. Visitors to the market at the beautiful bastide village of Villereal made the most of the bright sunshine this morning, despite the freezing temperatures.

Here at Le Perchoir gite in south west France, it may have been minus seven degrees centigrade last night but the cyclamen coum are still in full bloom.

I planted 50 cyclamen coum corms eight years ago, now they have spread so beautifully to completely occupy the area under the lime tree. I hope the snowdrops I planted three years ago soon spread as well as the cyclamen.