Heard birds singing today!! The first of the year ...people were actually stopping to listen 
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Gardening
Tramping up the hill
In the deep dusk
To shut the henhouse for the night,
I saw, even in the dim light,
Light buds on the apple tree
And, with the light of my torch,
A budding fresh greenness
At the ends of the flowering currant.
The bird cherry tree buds
Are swelling with new life
And the gorse looks sturdily leaved,
Ready to flower before too long.
If the bees have survived the winter in the chimney,
(the honey has stopped dripping),
They might come out for that.
Maybe in a town people don't notice it so much until it gets really loud 
.
NO ...what with snow until middle of last week ...biting winds!! Have been out and about ...this was a first this year. Today we had warmth ...but still no sun!!
Couldn't even do the RSPB count the other weekend ...freezing fog all day!!
Where do I live ...very open/exposed part of the North Downs ...nothing between me and Siberia 
...or so it seems!!
The frogs in my pond in W Yorks are very active, if you know what I mean, they where very disgruntled when I was trying to scope out debris from the pond this afternoon .
There's an idea! I think I might voice my 'need' for some tulips to DH when he takes DD round the loch for her trumpet lesson this afternoon.
The garden daffs are coming along. Some have flower buds now but I can't have them in the house as they do my sinuses in.
Tulips though......
"So here hath been dawning
Another blue day.
Think, wilt thou let it
Slip useless away?"
Oh, probably! but have packed several boxes....
Depends on your definition of useless, dunnit? In my stroppier moments (rare, as you all know), I'd call that sweet little verse puritanical pish.
Meanwhile, the seven day weather forecast at netweather says we'll get some 
on Thursday afternoon. That'll be nice.
We had a lovely afternoon on Thursday. What is it about Thursdays? 
Well, we thought poor us as well and bought a mute, BUT she gets a really nice sound out of it . It has been lovely.
offered her violin because someone was selling a small one. That's when she said: I don't want to play the violin. I want to play the trumpet!
She'll have to try something else when she gets her tooth brace in about nine months' time.
God yes! That could be nasty! 
Ha! Ha! jings! Love the breakfast coffee in the microwave.
I've recently had a fancy for an old-fashioned bird table, getting fed up with all the dingly-dangly-fill-me-up expensive bird feeders, so my husband has found suitable bits of wood that were hanging around in workshop etc., got going with a saw, found a bit of zinc dump-diving at the communal tip to protect the roof, and it is well on the way to being completed. No money spent. Big
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