It's not time to go back gardening just yet

Fiann Ó Nualláin seeks the redemptive qualities of hard work— but can’t get stuck into the garden quite yet. 

IT’S the third weekend of January and like most gardeners I generally start to feel the cabin-fever mounting around about now.

I’m not as bad as Jack Nicholson in The Shining – well, I tell myself I’m not. For me it’s not so much all work, no play that drives me crazy— it’s the champing at the bit to get stuck into a project.