Well the sun is out. The garden is gleaming and the buds are just starting to burst into view. So I got into the garden early, new Xmas gloves on, found my secateurs (how can you lose a pair of secateurs??), green bin in the garden. Pruning. Yes I cut all the old flowers off the hydrangeas, cut back the jasmine (my jasmine is not a plant, it's a garden monster). And yet it doesn't flower! It just takes over the garden. I think it is an alien but we won't dwell on that.

Anyway half an hour later my back is killing me. Why is it that just as you start to enjoy the healthy, pleasant hobbies like gardening, your body packs up on you.

So I though, well, enough's enough. Can't possibly do too much can you. Or too little.

So I came back in, made a quick lunch, and sat down to watch the next episode in my 'Homeland Series 1' DVD box set. Which I also got for Xmas.

I've been struggling through Homeland. Everybody said how fantastic it was and I'd missed it when it was on the telly. So I asked father Xmas for the first series for Xmas. Watched the first few episodes and I admit I found them a little slow to get into. And then the second DVD went all funny on me. So I had to download two episodes from i-tunes, and then of course it was weeks before I got around to watching them. I'll get to the point in a minute.

Finally managed to watch the rogue two episodes, got the DVDs back out and I was just starting to get into the story. Thinking, actually, this is good.

So back to today, I came in from the garden to watch my next episode of Homeland. And there wasnt one! The last episode I saw, when I was just starting to get into it ... was the last one! Now go figure, as they say over the water.

Not impressed. Now I'll have to go and buy Series Two.