Happy Winter Solstice! From tomorrow, days will be getting longer which is great news to us gardeners. If you want to celebrate the great day in style without having stayed up all night in the pouring rain and cold, shivering by the heel stone, why not tune in via youtube (above).
So turn up the heating, put on your best solstice suit, pour yourself a glass of warm mead and pretend you’re at Stonehenge with the best of them. Happy Solstice and a big shout to that yellow round thing we call the Sun.
Weeds up to me knees 
Is it the 8th day?
On the eighth day of Christmas,
in the black country
Eight arf beaked opples,
Seven Riffy socks
Six yampy whammels,
Five random things,
Four pints of banks’,
Three sacks of taters,
Two lovely faggots,
And a bostin cup o tay.
Bostin Gerry Bostin!