After a winter of stormy weather, I was curious to see how our old little greenhouse fared. It didn’t look great. The little windows were broken, parts of the roof were falling in… I could fix some parts of it, but not all of it. And with the cold and wet start to the year, I knew it could be a tough one.

It was a busy year. In the garden I was still training my Jakey so he wasn’t jumping on the beds and digging everything up…it was still too tempting for him. But even without my boi terrorising the garden, plants were struggling due to the temperamental weather, including the cold and wet…and with that, the slugs and snails that decided to eat so much.

As I tended to and sold the plants, I couldn’t help but laugh at the difference between our weather and that in Tanzania where the money raised will be donated. But that also reflects how climate change impacts parts of the world differently, too. In Cymru, we can go from so much rain towns and villages get incredibly flooded, to intense heatwaves that dries everything out and has me running around after the dog trying to get him to find some shade.

Whenever I get the photos from the previous year, it’s always such a boost – and they really were such beautiful photos from Tumaini Open School.

This year definitely wasn’t as successful as my previous years, but I still got to enjoy playing in the garden. Furthermore, £130 is still a lot for the communities that I donate to, and makes a huge difference.

The money was donated to the Tanzania Development Trust, where 100% of the donations go straight to the projects they were intended to go to. This year, it went to the Matumbulu Deaf Project in Dodoma where they bought fruit trees for a school garden.

The Matumbulu Deaf Project is an education centre that focuses on young adults with hearing impairments in Dodoma, rural Tanzania, get the education that they deserve through formal education, teaching vocational skills, and fostering entrepreneurship and passion within each student.

I’m so proud that the Blodeuwedd Project has reached another region of rural Tanzania, and yet another amazing community of people.