What a difference some
sun made! After a rather poor start to the week, weatherwise, Wednesday dawned
bright and sunny and it has stayed like that ever since. Amazingly, all the Spring
flowesr that I said had not shown themselves, have suddenly appeared and the
fields are a mass of tiny white daisies, while the trees have all blossomed and
are covered in white or pink flowers. Other trees that don’t have blossom are
veiled in a fine green mist that is rapidly getting thicker day by day. I love
the Spring here – especially once the sun starts to shine.
The miserable weather at
the start of the week did not slow down the work on our car at all and by
Monday evening the new mudguard had been fitted and Goldie looked almost new
again. Well ……. nearly. Then of course,
we had worked ourselves out of a job so
we had nothing to do on Tuesday, but as the old saying goes ‘the devil finds
work for idle hands to do’ and although it generally refers to some mischief or
other, this time it was good work. One of the chairs in the study was decidedly
wobbly, so we took it to pieces and then glued and re-screwed all the joints
until it was sturdy again.
Then, as I said, Spring
arrived on Wednesday and with it, the Mistle Thrush. We first got to know of
this bird last year after we were intrigued by the strange rattling noise that
it makes when alarmed, and I was delighted to hear it in the garden again.
Another sign of the change of season is that the local duck farmers have
allowed their birds out of doors and several farms in the area are a real
sight, with up to five hundred birds sitting out on the grass.
The rest of the week passed
uneventfully, and here we are, back at Sunday again. We are expecting a very
old friend to arrive tomorrow and I am so looking forward to her arrival. We have
known each other since our daughters were at Primary School together but haven’t
seen each other for about ten years so we will have plenty of catching up to
do.
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