I know it's April, but....
Yesterday evening was bathed in warm sunshine and there was definitely a positive feel in the air that spring had arrived. Kit and Kate Kite were flying low over Wattlebury. The primroses were smiling. Flick and Fluffy were ready to lamb and Penny and Harry were enjoying the last mooch of the day.
Yesterday evening was bathed in warm sunshine and there was definitely a positive feel in the air that spring had arrived. Kit and Kate Kite were flying low over Wattlebury. The primroses were smiling. Flick and Fluffy were ready to lamb and Penny and Harry were enjoying the last mooch of the day.
But today is dull, chilly, cloudy, windy, drizzly and drear. There is hardly a bird in sight, save for a pair of magpies and a wood pigeon. You wouldn't even notice yesterday's bright yellows of daffodils, celandine and primroses. Flick and Fluffy look no more like lambing than the man in the moon and Harry is hunched on top of the aviaries, whilst Penny is
sitting in our loose box with me. But the warm weather of yesterday and the wet weather of today will make the grass grow and the buds on the trees burst open. That Thomas Tusser knew a thing or two - 'sweet April showers do spring May flowers' he said. And Bambi was very positive too about his 'drip drip drop little April shower, what can compare to your beautiful sound?' Oh! and by the way Mum - Thomas Tusser back in 1573 also wrote this ditty:
In March and in April from morning till night
In sowing and seeding good housewives delight
To have her a garden or other like spot
To trim up the house and to furnish the pot.
"Thanks Gordon!"
sitting in our loose box with me. But the warm weather of yesterday and the wet weather of today will make the grass grow and the buds on the trees burst open. That Thomas Tusser knew a thing or two - 'sweet April showers do spring May flowers' he said. And Bambi was very positive too about his 'drip drip drop little April shower, what can compare to your beautiful sound?' Oh! and by the way Mum - Thomas Tusser back in 1573 also wrote this ditty:
In March and in April from morning till night
In sowing and seeding good housewives delight
To have her a garden or other like spot
To trim up the house and to furnish the pot.
"Thanks Gordon!"