I spent a wonderful, quiet half an hour in the garden last week, contemplating my pussy willow. Today I had a wander round the garden and found 10 different flowers blooming after what has been a ferocious weekend of gales and hail, interrupted by wonderful sunshine.

Soon it will be time to tidy it all up, but before then, I'm just enjoying the wildness of it all.

So is the blackbird and the family of bluetits.

LTS