Saturday morning here was appallingly wet! This is the view from my Study window - can you make out the "stair rod" type rain?
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It also went very dark and very gloomy.
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The rain stopped eventually and as the ground was so wet I decided to give up on Plan "A" ( veg patch digging) and go for Plan "B" ( go to Newent with a friend and her children, with Compostgirl)
Which left Compostman to do more DIY, helped by Cassi Cat. Don't worry, he wasn't actually up a ladder while we were out - this was after we came back home!
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Newent is a lovely little Market town about 8 miles away from us, much like Ledbury but over the county border into Gloucestershire and with a different mix of small shops and a very lovely park and Lake. We had a look in the Patchwork /Quilting shop :-) where I bought a few bits and bobs, we went into a couple of "new to us" charity shops - the children all found " finds" in them and then we had an excellent lunch in "The George" a very old Coaching Inn on the High Street.
After lunch we walked around Newent Lake and it was then I realised - Spring has finally Sprung! I spotted Daisies and Celendines in the grass, the first Ransoms were out and the green shoots of the Bluebells were cuite clealy there. The Ducks, Coots and Moorhens were all pairing off and nest building - it was warm and the air smelt of that green, earthy, "alive" smell which is ...SPRING!
We came home and later, when I checked on my Potatoes in the Polytunnel, I found...this!
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Can you see the green shoots poking through the compost :-)
Have you seen more signs of spring, where you are?
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