I had breakfast outside yesterday morning, and sat out all morning enjoying the sun. Life is getting better.

Even more excitingly, a friend took me to the garden centre where I finally got a winter jasmine for the corner of the garden:

And a crown of rhubarb:

Too bad I won’t be able to harvest it until 2007. I’d hoped to buy a grapevine, but they’d sold out of the variety I intended to get (Madeleine Angevine). Also, here’s a pic of the bird feeder I got from the Farmers’ Market a couple of weeks ago:

It’s a kind of variation on the traditional fat ball. It doesn’t seem to have been tremendously popular yet, but I’m hoping that when news spreads…