Spring Greetings!

The clocks have changed, the evenings are lighter and the scent of blossom is in the air. This is always a good time for me, a summer-born bod who finds the relentlessness of winter something of a drag.

Over recent weeks, there have been signs of new growth popping up all around, and to our great pleasure this weekend, we found in our garden not only a slow worm basking in the sunshine, but also a pond full of frog spawn! My daughter Ali has been developing the pond over the past couple of years, and this is our first 'homegrown' batch. We're over the moon!

In the face of the year we've all had, small pleasures have taken on greater significance, haven't they? Certainly, here, we seem to be taking more reward from the creative things in life - the making, baking, growing, sewing, walking, talking ... and now, great joy, we look forward to some lifting of restrictions, and more time spent with family and friends. Happy days.

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