I must confess to disliking ivy immensely as a garden plant, even though many extol its virtues I think they are rather specious. It's not the first time I've shot ivy, the last time, right back in the first year of PAD, I was hankering on about a black and white past.....though not black and white photos!

This particular ivy is in the process of trying to colonise the back wall of our house but it doesn’t realise that it’s about to fail and fail spectacularly! It’s being pulled off and burned for two reasons, firstly because as I said, I don’t like the stuff and secondly because we’re getting a new door in its place!

Despite that, I was putting recycling into our recycling bins earlier today, spotted it, with its amazing root system and decided that specious or not, it would make a grand shot for the day.

In a day when gardening has been top of my list of priorities, it’s also a good representation of the day. My day has been a mix of theory and practice – planning the A/B/C rotation in the vegetable patch, sorting the seeds into the relevant batches, then looking up sowing months for everything.

We’re expecting some snow tomorrow and more in the week – I hope that my chillis and peppers, many of which now have their second sets of leaves won’t catch cold! Even though our ‘spring’ has come to a rude halt, I’ve been planting hardy stuff – more broad beans, carrots and beetroot. The first batch of broad beans is now up through the soil and away as they say.

Last year's shot was fab, even though I say so myself - and the set up to get it was very strange!