Exciting ‘25 Garden Plans, Update on Richard & More 🎄🎄🎄

hi everyone it has been a little while but I wanted to come and do a video for you because it's Christmas well hello everyone it's Janette here enthusiastic Gardener it has been a while I think I posted my last proper video um beginning of August and now it's almost Christmas so thank you for watching all the shorts I've been doing little shorts which has been my way of connecting with you and thank you for commenting and everything so what I thought for this video wait for the car for this video we'll do four parts I think and my gift to you no ads we're not having any ads in this it's not about making money it's about saying hello and saying thank you so four parts to this video first of all part one I'd like to give you an update on Rich's health I won't go into previous things because hopefully you've seen those videos about the heart attack and the cardiac arrest and all that which is just over one year ago actually so that's going to be part one part two we'll have a look at my December Garden seeing as it's not raining today although it is chilly it's 4° C 39 F so but it's now winter so what do you expect part three is going to be oh I have exciting plans to share for the future of my channel for next year well I don't know the whole of the year I don't know what's going to happen but I do know what we're going to be doing when we first come back you know late winter early spring so I can tell you that and that is very exciting and then part four and don't worry it's not me playing the piano again like I did last year but it be a bit of CH Christmas festivity so let's get straight into it Richard's Health now well we've had such such a challenging year and after many scans ultrasounds blood tests appointments going private paying for ourselves uh which which we are thankful for all of that he has finally been diagnosed he has seropositive inflammatory rheumatoid arthritis he hasn't even been able to move his hands his wrists elbows and then he has osteoarthritis in his shoulders he can't raise his shoulders and uh he's finally started medication he started that last week he has to take five tablets in one day and then because they affect your liver you wait a whole week for your liver to regenerate which it does and then you take the following week you take another five Etc and you take another tablet in between that as well plus he's on all his heart things so he's he's rattling he really is rattling bless him but he had to make the decision well all year he was hoping to go back to work he's plumbing and heating engineer but it's just impossible he sold his van he's closing the business you know stopped all the insurances that he needs to pay and everything so that we've had to accept that he's not going back to work he can't lift boilers he can't crawl under in Loft spaces he can't twist under baths he can't carry you know um sinks out anymore he can't do all this Rippin things he can't do any of that anymore so that's that he's not working anymore yes osteoarthritis rheumatoid arthritis it's been a challenging year but do you know what they say don't they and when you're healthy you don't really listen but it's so true your health is the most important thing your health your friends and your family and money means nothing at the end of the day it it's very nice of course but but dropped my glasses and um yeah so anyway we are hopefully on the up it's challenging challenging year but so many good lessons have been learned and uh but it's not been easy anyway let's get on with part two let's have a look at my garden in December all of my ornaments and things things are all packed away in here flamingos everything stored away for the winter and yeah so Woodland cour yard is very bare very bare indeed the lighting is not that great oh do you know I have new compost bins if you haven't watched my shorts you won't know about my new compost oh yes see lots has happened that you you may not realize do you remember I had two trees I had a Bay Tree here I had Victoria Plum there they've gone they've gone oh lots of things have happened that's the hibernaculum I don't know if there's anything in there the hibernacle it's ready and waiting it's very cold that's the pond needs a good old clean out as you can see and then this Pond here oh dear see look oh dear that looks as if it's dying doesn't it we have to come oh dear yeah oh okay did not realize that anyway anyway show you the Good the Bad and the Ugly and the pond it's got leaves I need to get my waiters on get out there everything's lost its leaves had a good old clear up tidy up but we did plant a load of tulic bulbs so the daffodils were already in there this is the Bay Tree which was over by the circle and I moved it and I'm so happy because I didn't get all the roots and I had to cut some so I'm so pleased this has been in a few months it looks fine and then we've got the container garden trucky carpus this is beautiful Mahonia lovely lovely winter interest on the Mahonia very beautiful yep I've moved things you can see my Willow my braided Willow and that's been in about four different places and uh now it's there there sorry the lighting is it's not good today actually I've picked the wrong there we go I've picked the wrong day or the wrong time of day for filming I've had so many leaves Leaf clearing sessions but I did think that it was a good idea for me to clear the leaves once a week rather than leaving it till the last minute you can can see I've got a lemon Cyprus there now which was in the front garden that blew over in storm B if you saw that short there was that story that's been moved and then I planted it here that's the apple tree we swapped apple tree lemon Cyprus um yeah I don't know if that will stay that might just go to the Garden grave in the sky but the lemon Cyprus blew over again so that's been moved and that's it really I mean it's December I do have a lot of Evergreens which I'm pleased about and that's a quick look at this side oh December Gardens aren't that interesting are they anyway that's my garden in December come on come on sit down here Mommy come sit down oh I hope you enjoyed looking at my garden um yes uh I don't expect to do very much a little Potter around I need to clear the leaves out the pond and things like that but there won't be any more videos um not for a long long time at least however however everyone I've got such an exciting little set of a series of videos which which will come out some point I don't know when February perhaps in March definitely March because sorry it's cold my nose is running my friend Tina who has been my very very very good friend for 10 years or more she asked me to design her garden her and her husband and Keith they've uh had a lot of building work they've done no gardening all this year 2024 because they've been doing building work and their Garden which they love it's just well it needs a revamp so they asked me would I do it for them and I thought yes how exciting is that so I drew up a plan proper to scow scow drawing in and everything and I've designed a new Garden for them and we've already done a about five different uh days of gardening ripping things out starting from scratch it's going to be so exciting we've filmed three videos completely finished already but now of course with the winter um we're we're uh not doing any for quite a few couple of months anyway but I didn't want to post those three because I don't want you to wait for 3 months before you see an update I want you to see them every week a progression even if in real life there is a couple of months Gap because there's some building work um that needs to be done which I can't do that but already we've made lots of changes it's very exciting and also I wanted to start now we started in November and I wanted to start this side of Christmas because uh I want to hopefully be ready for planting in spring so if we waited to start the garden and till like March time we won't be ready for planting or anything till like July or something which uh don't want to do that we don't want to do that we want to get on with it but that is has been so much fun so I I'll be showing you that this is going to be a nice series I hope which is going to be um I'm not sure when it all depends on when the building work starts or when that's done um so that I can do weekly videos I hope I'm making sense but anyway very very exciting it's not a big Garden it's a very it's quite a small garden it's smaller than my garden but it's going to be gorgeous and it's I'm loving it I'm loving it anyway part four I've had this clip on my phone for a whole year cuz I couldn't bear to delete it but do you remember when we did our Christmas conto this time last year when I played the piano which I must say I've not played it since I learned that one tune and that was it I've not gone back to it I thought by now I should be able to pick up a a music book and just play I should have learned so much but that didn't happen that's not to say it won't happen in the future however Richard sang this song for you and a week later he'd had his heart attack and cardiac arest and everything we had no idea when we were like having fun making this video so it was a fun video to make but I thought let's show it again I know you've seen it but it is Christmas and I want to thank you all for being such such good friends and Merry Christmas to you all and a very very happy New Year lty says hi and she wants to go for a walk so I'm going to leave you with this clip and a very very Merry Christmas and a very very happy and peaceful and healthy New Year thank you for watching bye here we have Richard with the wonderful Let It Snow take it away Richard all the WEA outside is fful and my dear you're so delightful and since we've no place to go let it snow let it snow let it snow it do show signs of stopping and I got me some cor for popping the lights are turned away down low let it snow let it snow let it snow when we finally kiss good night out in a storm but you were to hold me tight all the way home I'll be warm all the fire is slowly dying and my still could and since we no place to go let it snow let it snow let it [Music] snow when we finally kiss good night my head got in and a stor but if you were to hold me tight all the way home I'll be warm all the fire is slowly dying and my dear is still goodbying as long as you love me so let it snow let it snow let it snow wonderful