After a long, cold winter spring is finally here.  The upside to the cold winter and the late spring is that the flowers and plants are now blossoming bigger and brighter than they have done for many years.

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Well the sunshine lasted long enough to get out there and get some essential jobs done, even if it has returned to standard march winds now. I've even cut the lawn, I can never bring myself to spray it with all the chemicals necessary to get that perfect stripey look, but it'll do, if anyone has

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Wow. What a glorious week of sunshine we've just had in the UK. My solar lights from last year are twinkling away from dusk til dawn and now I've completed some of my spring gardening jobs the garden's starting to look pleasant already.

There's definitely room for more lights

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I've been pottering around my garden a lot in the last few weeks and am amazed by the spring plants and widlife that are starting to appear. The fish are swimming hungrily around the pond, barely struggling to get past the vast quantities of frogs spawn and the fruity frogs jumping all around Read More

I’ve just packed away our Christmas lights, and I’m feeling pretty smug as opposed to the rest of the gaudy red flashing santas, with dangling electric wires, stretched across wet grasses, just waiting to electrocute the postman, our pretty blue fairy lights, were powered by daylight, and Read More