Sunday 27 March 2016

Happy Spring!

It's Easter. And so I doubt if many will be dropping into blogland this week. You will be too busy with chocolate eggs and hot cross buns. Maybe even trimming a bonnet or two. Celebrating the end of winter, greeting the possibilities of spring. It is time to put away the winter woollies and thermal undies, to think about cutting the grass, to plant early potatoes. Climb a hill and savour the view in the fragile spring sunshine; wander in woods and marvel - as we do each year - as trees sprout tiny green buds. The grim days of snow and storms are behind us ...

I know that here in the west we link all this razzmatazz to a Christian festival. Other cultures with comparable climates also have stories to underpin a bit of a knees-up and this time of year. I choose not to comment on any of that, other than to offer good wishes to anyone celebrating as spring arrives, with or without a god to justify a party.

Me - I looking forward to greeting the arrival of spring. Well, that was the plan...

I don't know how it was where you are, but, where I am, anyone strutting down the High Street in an Easter bonnet would have had a hard time hanging onto it. But they'd have hung on if they could, if only to protect their heads from the hail. The days might be a bit longer, but it was so dark around lunchtime I needed lights on just to make a cup of tea. As for abandoning the winter woollies - I lit my wood-burning stove and settled down with a book, just like I do the depths of winter.

I'm certainly not going to abandon my fleeces and waterproofs. Nor venture out to cut my grass just because the calendar tells me it should be spring. Had I even thought about walking I might have been blown off a hillside

So someone clearly forget to tell the weather-fairies that it's time to cheer up. Me - I'll huddle by my fire for a bit longer, till those fairies finally to come out to play. How about you - did you brave the weather and slosh through mud on an Easter egg hunt? Or maybe the weather was kinder where you are.

Happy spring!

8 comments:

  1. Haha..it's chucking it down here...mind, that's because Easter is so early...we haven't really got into Spring yet...

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    1. Oh good, I can blame the fact that Easter is early - so winter will be really over by April? Or May ...

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  2. Oh yes, Jo, it's howling with wind and pouring with rain here too. Spring's spring has got a bit stuck and hasn't sprung yet.

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    1. You like this weather about as much as I do, don't you Val!

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  3. We had spring over Xmas and now we have winter for Easter. Whatever will happen next.

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    1. Let's not even think about what summer might look like ... Though it seems unlikely it will be summery!

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  4. It's cold. Probably not as cold as in the UK, but on the other hand it doesn't seem right to turn on heating at the end of March, so we don't. Brr! Fortunately it will get warmer from tomorrow.

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  5. Glad to say I missed this horrific sounding weather. I was ill but was in southern Spain, so still did appreciate the balmy sunshine, which I am sure is more healing than chilly greyness. Hope you had a good Easter!

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