These last weekends of winter are time to do those small jobs before spring really takes holdIf you subscribe to the meteorological definition of the seasons, spring arrived on 1 March. But I’m a firm fan of the astronomical year and wait for the vernal equinox on 20 March, when day and night are of equal length, to revel in the blossom.In early January I cheered myself up with the thought that by the end of the month it would still be light at 5pm. And the first day on which it felt like winter might be easing came a few weeks ago – one of those glorious sunny February days when the air felt thick with the syrupy smell of sarcococca (sweet box) and the earliest daffodils began to pop. Continue reading…
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