6th April

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"Walked a short distance up the lesser Coombe, with an intention of going to the source of the brook, but the evening closing in, cold prevented us. The Spring still advancing very slowly. The horse-chestnuts budding, and the hedgerows beginning to look green, but nothing fully expanded. Dorothy Wordsworth, 1798 (Somerset)

"Thunder. The cows are getting with rough tongue into the sweet grass... Arum, and blackbirds whistling. So beautiful, even the dust." Richard Jeffries, 1880 (Surrey)

2009

A very ordinary looking day, still a little misty - but not cold, and there was an almost-warm breeze blowing gently as I waited for the bus in the evening. Little tree outside my window is most definitely feeling its green... Byslantedlight, 2009 (Cambs.)

2010

Today was the most gorgeous Spring day! Little car even said it was 21C when I got home this afternoon, although she was sitting in the sun... but it was t-shirt warm... And it turns out that there are some blossoms around (mostly in town), and there are rabbits by the side of the road, and pheasants chasing each other around the fields... Byslantedlight, 2010 (Cambs.)