Our local trails (FoD) went from total slop last weekend to ‘Tell the Town Crier we’ve found a dry bit’ by Friday afternoon. It’s not by any stretch loamy yet, but the difference was amazing. Shows how a couple of dry, warm and windy days make a massive difference. Riding in shirt sleeves as well.
P-Jay’s rain has arrived here now so I expect it to be full on slop-fest again tomorrow. I thought I’d seen some bluebells but was informed that there are in fact more than one purple flower and this was one of those 😉 Wild garlic is coming out tho. And that makes bluebells seem grippy!
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Spring sprung yesterday 🙂
Got hit in the face by a rogue bumble bee last night. Spring is here.
Green beer.
(One for the Hampshire/Wiltshire/Dorset area folks...)
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Bootiful spring weather (if a little windy) in East Devon yesterday.
4 days ago you could barely tell what colour the bike was under the mud. This was yesterday after 20 miles of offroad riding....
Saw pair of swallows yesterday here in Devon
Well they made it home to North Yorkshire cos I saw them at Nosterfield along with somw Sand Martins!
My g/f has seen bumbly bees going into a hole in one of the sheds, and I’ve been watching the robin bustling around fetching stuff for the nest he’s building in the leylandii hedge, and one of the cowslip flowers is open, with several others close to opening. My apple tree is showing lots of leaf, and the little hawthorn I dug up and planted to fill in a gap left by a horrid old elder is coming into leaf, so flowers should follow.
I’ve got a celandine I dug up and planted out back has got loads of flowers on it, so if that spreads, along with the cowslips and primroses, it should be a bit more colourful at the bottom of my garden in future.
peacock butterfly in the garden today along with some bumblebees
What a gorgeous looking village that Klunk posted pics of. Was most intrigued by the church and in case anyone else is here's a website with great pics inside and out. Check out the stained glass window!
http://www.northamptonshiresurprise.com/organisation/grafton-underwood-st-james-the-apostle-church/
It's definitely turning a lot greener around our local woods.
Not long now and all this will be bluebells.
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hints of green today
bloody warm by the end 🙂
Commute was lovely this morning down here in E.Kent. Bit too cool for shorts + t-shirt yesterday on way home, but might get away with it this evening.
Can you see him?
Yup, just about!
Beautiful day today, shorts and tee shirt, watering the garden, first bluebell of the native ones I planted has come out, the hedgehogs are wandering about, loads of cowslips out on the lawn, and looks like there are loads of flower buds showing on my little apple tree. All looking good.
This last two weeks have been sap-ful. I took snaps:
Daffodils with gratuitous heavy-metal decor. (Astley Hall)
Gress snaerk emergin, ayet? (Stourport)
Some weird garlic stuff that ain't ramsons (Newland, Worcs)
Some ground stuff springing (North Wales):
bloomin' eck it's like high summer out there @ 10.30 in the morning April 19 I am absolutely dripping ! 🙂 23 deg !! already