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Snowdrops everywhere!
Most of my route to the shops was festooned with snowdrops today, with a
nice big patch of winter aconites at the top of the golf course road for variety - Spring may not be here just yet, but it's beginning to feel like winter's on the way out. First time I've taken the trike out for a week, and it wasn't until I started down the road that I realised how much I'd missed it. Weather wasn't the best - drizzle and clouds - but I felt so much better just trundling down the road. Even the headwind on the way back didn't spoil the mood, although when I put the trike back in the garage I heard that familiar hissing noise - another bloody puncture... Still at least it had the decency to wait until I got home before deflating. Usually on the trike, it's the left hand front wheel that gets the lion's share of punctures, being closest to the stuff that accumulates at the edge of the road, but there's been some Free Range Mud Farming going on lately and it seems that assorted crud had been gathering in the middle of the road, because my last two punctures have been in the *right* front wheel. Oh well, better go and change the dratted tube I suppose... -- Carol Hague "I've never seen the point of wind." - Chas Griffin _Scenes From A Smallholding_ |
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Snowdrops everywhere!
"Carol Hague" wrote
Most of my route to the shops was festooned with snowdrops today, with a nice big patch of winter aconites at the top of the golf course road for variety - Spring may not be here just yet, but it's beginning to feel like winter's on the way out. Daffodils were out in the SW a couple of weeks ago. |
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Snowdrops everywhere!
AndyP wrote:
"Carol Hague" wrote Most of my route to the shops was festooned with snowdrops today, with a nice big patch of winter aconites at the top of the golf course road for variety - Spring may not be here just yet, but it's beginning to feel like winter's on the way out. Daffodils were out in the SW a couple of weeks ago. Flippin' 'eck, that's early! I used to live in Zummerzet but I don't remember the daffs being out that soon as a rule... -- Carol Hague "Regulation of acupuncture is a thorny issue." - Adrian White on Radio 4 |
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Snowdrops everywhere!
"Carol Hague" wrote
Daffodils were out in the SW a couple of weeks ago. Flippin' 'eck, that's early! I used to live in Zummerzet but I don't remember the daffs being out that soon as a rule... The ones either end of Axbridge bypass were in flower but not the ones coming back into Bristol last time I went by that way. It's the bloody bluebells that have annoyed me the last couple of years but I've now worked out that the ones in the Forest of Dean seem to be a few weeks later than those elsewhere, even the ones practically next door in the Wye Valley...we'll catch 'em at their best this year. |
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Snowdrops everywhere!
"Carol Hague" wrote in message ... Most of my route to the shops was festooned with snowdrops today, with a nice big patch of winter aconites at the top of the golf course road for variety - Spring may not be here just yet, but it's beginning to feel like winter's on the way out. The crocuses are just coming up along Melville Drive (yellow and purple) - they always precede the daffs by about a fortnight. Makes the journey to work even more pleasant. E |
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