Tomorrow is the 1st February, and it's time to wake up.... Where have l been for TWO WHOLE MONTHS. Well I've been hibernating of course. The garden was covered in snow, it was too cold to venture out and I am the lazy Brighton gardener after all, so I just went to sleep. Anyway, I've woken up again. Got a bit hungry, and so did the birds. What with all this snowy weather going on our poor birds are starving (we don't count seagulls in this equation as they're seaside scum.) So Friday gardening to the rescue.
How to make a bird feeder.
Get lots of yummy ingredients (dried fruit, seeds, nuts) and mix them in a bowl with a load of lard.
Take some pine cones and attach some string to the tops.
With a spoon push the lard mixture into the grooves of the pine cone.
Then hang in the garden and watch the bird fight over this haute cuisine delicacy.
And you can make all sorts of other feeders using wire or Cornus stems.
This was mine. A Valentine gift for the birdies. 
Happy new year by the way.. !