With a Little Help From Father Chistmas

Our regional daily newspaper has a reporter in each commune. Ours is known to everyone as Father Christmas as he has long white hair with a beard to match and frequently wears bright red clothes. We met Santa at the recycling depot about a fortnight ago and asked him if he would mention the open garden in his column. He made arrangements to call and interview us and we had a full write up  (with coloured picture) in Saturdays edition. Furthermore we had a mention in the national expat paper again with accompanying picture. However the photos showed a more impressive display than that which was on show yesterday.  I realise that we can not predict with any accuracy what will be in flower on any given day but I was disappointed that after a week of temperatures in the mid thirties many flowers had just shrivelled.

However the day was a great success in every way and the garden did not look too bad the night before when Pat took this video.

Hope you can open these!