Having spent half term week in our pond after breaking the ice, literally, and the past two weekends dodging snow showers to bed up marsh marigolds and water lilies that had taken it over, we now have a pond we can see again. The froggies and newts are all back in it again [yes, we left it all on the edge so they could get back in] as are the iris, lilies and marigolds. But, out in the garden we have dwarf iris, crocus, hellebores, daffodils, primroses and our cowslips are in bud.   Cothele House has had to postpone the daffodil walk this year by 3 weeks as not enough daffodils are out yet. They have 20 Cornish varieties there and if you are in the area it's a must.