I found this brilliant tip last night while flicking through the magazine I bought at the market the other day. It suggests keeping your gardening tools in a fake compost bin on the allotment. How great is that? I mean whatever next, storing those important insurance policies in a hidden drawer beneath a raised bed, the spare house keys dangling on a string between the runner bean canes or keeping your passport in a plastic bag submerged in the garden pond? Excellent.

On that note, a big Happy New Year to all our gardening and music friends out there and we wish for some better weather in 2013. As I’m writing this the rain is lashing against the back window, not a great sign but we live in hope!