Just another date on the calendar, but also hope - for lots of things to come: spring and longer days for a start. January is a time to start preparing the garden for summer. I have just put the 2020 calendars into the recycling bin. Funny feeling!!
I usually keep the previous years calendar @tuikowhai34 so that I can refer back to a date that something happened, but I'm not so sure I want to do that this year, I think it may well go in the bin!
For me NYD is no more significant than any other date in the calendar .. but I try to start and end each day of my life with hope ... what would be the point otherwise?
“I am not lost, for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost.” Winnie the Pooh
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raisingirlEast Devon, on the Edge of Exmoor.Posts: 5,576
It's only a date in the calendar
I generally see the turn of the year as being the winter solstice, when the light starts - ever so slowly - to return again. This year we are in the middle rather than the beginning. The world outside looks absolutely frozen to a standstill today, - it's all monochrome out there - but the birds are about - there was a woodpecker at my bird feeder (I use the term very loosely) this morning - a flash of scarlet to make me stop and stare
“Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first”
@floralies I keep a diary where I enter my appointments, weather and garden activities - sowing, planting (and where)!! That I keep to look up weather and gardening
I have seen many New Years Days, and believe I will see a few more yet, lets look on the bright side, to gardens in flower to veg plots supplying our food, and just the joy of the New Year, for everyone.
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Edit: This coming from a nurse, sat on my lonesome with the kids in bed whilst my mrs who is also a nurse is doing a night shift!
I hope this year is going to be better than last. I dont think it will take much for 2021 to be an improvement.
I was so glad to see the back of 2020. I so welcomed 2021. I just hope that 2021 does not follow the same path as last year.
Wishing you all the best for a Happy New Year 😁