Joys of Spring

Every thread!? Ha! Ha! It could be that I'm as omnipresent as you suggest but I think you'll find, if you check your facts, that you are mistaken.

Or it could be that I really am as super efficient and amazing as you think .

Or maybe you're just paranoid .

Heard of dipping in to GN between tasks? Heard of 'watching' certain threads?

Visions of carbon ducking and weaving around the corridors of GN, trying to find Bagitha-free corners.
I just spotted the first forge-me-not peeping out in the garden.
Feels more than a tad weird to think that a week today I will be headed off to autumn!

Ha ha indeed but your profusion of posts makes one wonder if there are more than one of you?

who me? or B?

B

Wood anemones out here. Along with banks of primroses, celandines, white violets. Thank you Milton Keynes Parks Trust - they look after the acres of parkland, including the sides of all our leafy boulevards. Some really good primrose lined dual carriageways at the moment. Not to mention repeated waves of blackthorn. And trees busting their buds - horse chestnuts all sticky and pleated. An acer producing tiny bouquets of lime green blooms on its twigs and ash pushing out what looks for a day or so like some sort of nasty cankers that turn into their strange blackish flowers. Compost bins emptied for the first time in about 3 years. Garden pretty much tidied before i head off to the other side of the world. Very very strange leaving at this my favourite time of year to go to autumn. It will all look so different when i come back.

Sunshine warm enough to dry washing!

Taking Cubs on an activity weekend in March and getting warm, dry weather in Scotland, warm and dry enough to sit on the ground without getting a muddy backside! Well, I didn't. They did, but kids are talented that way.

Zippety-doo-dah
Zippy-aye-ai
My, oh my, what a wonderful day....

etc

bagitha Your pleasure is infectious...I'm wearing a huge
Our lovely daughter-in-law [mummy of wee man] is celebrating her birthday. Wee man now has a scooter, and is hurtling at high speed around the park. Wish we were there

It is glorious... and you have just reminded me .... there is stuff in the washing machine.

There's stuff in my washing machine but when I went to take it out it was bone dry - the door of the machine needs a good prod (kick) to lock. This hadn't happened. It has now.

bagitha - "Heard of dipping in to GN between tasks?"

Yep. at the moment I'm burning the rhubarb pudding.

It is 7pm ...I still don't need to put the light on!! Wonderful weather all day too!!

Wall to wall - cloudless sky - mirror-like sea.

Go into hospital one o'clock Saturday. Not to eat or drink after ten. According to the blurb that came in the post, I appear to be male.

There are six kids, aged nine to eleven, running around my garden enjoying the rapidly cooling lovely spring air. DD won't come in for her tea.

Reminds me of a line from a Dylan Thomas book or poem I read once Bagitha. "Nothing grows in that garden but washing and love".

Though I'm sure your garden grows beautifully!

It's a long time since since I had a garden full of shrieking kids! Sigh!

What a lovely quote Jings. Haven't heard that one before but I will remember it and pass it on

love it

Super, don't forget to pack some sexy nighties, then they'll know you're all woman!!

It's a take on some prose from 'Under Milk Wood - just looked it up on Google - I prefer Jingl's version

Love that, jings, though I'd forgotten it. Thanks. The kids have had months of cold, wet weather and not being able to play outside much so they've all gone a bit mad and drunk on sunshine. Stuff the regular mealtime rules!! The garden is great for kids as there are loads of dens inside bushes and trees, slopes to roll down, and not a lot they can damage.

Jings Your quote is perfect.
bagitha there is no sound sweeter than the laughter of children
nanchrissy Indeed I am...^all woman^...and happy to be so...

My daughter from London visited us in Wales last weekend. She went for a walk in the hills and came back most excited with photos" Look at all these toads -- Mummies carrying a baby on their backs" When she got home she put the photos on Facebook. Her nephew (my Grandson) pointed out "they're not mummies and babies, Auntie, -its the mating season. The female toad is much smaller than the male," She was a bit red-faced!

I've seen two lots of bluebells out! That is very early.

I saw my first bluebells yesterday. Not in my garden where they are simply a nuisance, threatening to over-run everything.