We had 18⁰︎C here today. Glorious. Ate too many chips sitting outside Rosie's Kitchen in Bude at lunchtime so we went for a long walk down to Bude canal then back along the cliff path. We heard two skylarks - first this year! Celandines and primroses in huge drifts, blackthorn in full bloom, chiffchaffs and robins singing their fierce courtship rants (aka beautiful birdsong), black sedge flowering along the canal, all senses engaged, all things universal...