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Old February 2nd 04, 04:18 PM
Carol Hague
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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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Old February 2nd 04, 07:40 PM
AndyP
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"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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Old February 2nd 04, 10:36 PM
Carol Hague
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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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Old February 2nd 04, 11:52 PM
AndyP
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"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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Old February 3rd 04, 09:17 AM
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"Carol Hague" wrote in message
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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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