We've got daffodils, and primroses, and primulas, and blackthorn and iris reticulosa has been and gone, and I'm going to look at those. The horsechestnut buds in my niece's back garden are swollen and near to bursting. I've not been woken by birdsong yet.

I'm south of the snowline, and we've only had three smatterings this year, which does me no good at all - I need snow! Despite there having been some thin showers during the day, some of my class reckon they've never seen snowflakes falling properly. What a deprivation.

Penny