As spring turns to summer – we live in hope

Summer is coming, the daffs have been and gone, a beautiful camellia is sitting on the window sill outside waiting to be potted and hopeful window boxes with unkillable remains of begonias are waiting to be restocked with primroses and daffodils, with heather and with ivy.  Spring is a time of optimism where miserable gardeners like me go for walks through Altamount garden and think that this year is going to be the year where colour will infuse my own garden and vegetables will grow in abundance. 

In reality, I will probably only ever have unkillables like the brave daffodils and tulips that find their way through last years overgrown grass again and the sturdy rubharb that is rekindling its stocks again. However it is spring and we live in  
hope.


We also live in hope that that elusive truck from France will come in and bring our long awaited ration of spelt flour which will see Speltbakers out of our supply crisis. We live in hope that farmers in Ireland and Europe will head the call of demand and grow more spelt and we live n hope that our small fledging business will grow and prosper.

We live in hope that the teenage baker’s exam will not be badly  
affected by having to start work at 5.30 every other morning. We live in hope that we will actually keep up this blog this time rather than making it only every 6 month. But this is spring that turns to summer.  Good plans and resolution made in lent are at an all time high. If not now than never.  So we resolve to write a weekly blog and not to be overwhelmed by the nitty gritty of the business, the hassle of the storms and  the failing water system in this old house.  

We will focus on the blooms and the beauty, on the bird sound and the sound of kids playing outside again. We will presume that car and water system are fixable and  soon a month will end  with just a little bit of a cushion in the bank. We will take the sign of building in the neighbourhood as the turning point of the recession and we will remain positive and delighted with life  - as the truck arrives from France and 20 bags of flour roll into the strore. Small business and small quantities yet but Speltbakers bakes on.