To think there is nowhere lovelier than England on a clear Spring day

[FredSoftly]

And anyone who disagrees is WRONG!

I love spring in the UK. After our depressing winter and long cold dark nights it’s such a joy to see the crocuses, snowdrops and daffodils in full bloom. Where I work it’s fairly rural and from my office I can watch horses grazing in the fields, foxes mooching and lots of wildlife unwinding. It’s stunning on a spring day.

You’re not wrong. Porthminster Beach Cafe Terrace on a glorious spring day is hard to better.

@KNain

Happy to be firmly in the wrong camp on this.

I always think UK spring days look nicer than they feel.

They look lovely and sunny but there's always a slight chill in the breeze and I find I still need quite a big coat in spring.

Give me a hot, hot beach with an icy cold cocktail any day.

That’s exactly why I love them. Spring in England is perfect for heat-phobic people like me. Sunny weather with a cold breeze is perfect.

YES.

Spring is a much bigger deal in England than in the rest of the UK, probably because of our pagan roots - the whole spring representing fertility thing.

Mayday was a big deal where I grew up and I bloody loved being a Maypole dancer always followed by a sort of beer festival in the barn next door where the parents would all get drunk

England also has a kind of meadow-y, lush softness to it that Wales and Scotland don’t have. It’s very green, and has the fairytale woodland thing going on with the thatched houses and gentle slopey hills.

@MrsDThomas

Tell me you don’t love this❤️ Snowdon on the right. My walk this morning.

It is beautiful, but as in my post above, it isn’t ‘spring like’ as it is too rugged/barren.

Just RTFT is anyone else laughing at all the Wales/Scotland/Ireland posters and their neuroses 😂😂😂

@Wondermule

YES.

Spring is a much bigger deal in England than in the rest of the UK, probably because of our pagan roots - the whole spring representing fertility thing.

Mayday was a big deal where I grew up and I bloody loved being a Maypole dancer always followed by a sort of beer festival in the barn next door where the parents would all get drunk

England also has a kind of meadow-y, lush softness to it that Wales and Scotland don’t have. It’s very green, and has the fairytale woodland thing going on with the thatched houses and gentle slopey hills.

Green? You don't know the meaning of green until you drive the NW500 or drive into Kerry.

And Spring's a bigger deal in England? I've never heard that in my life. Climbing a Munro on the west coast with the hills bursting with colour in March is joy itself. Go educate yourself , and you OP.

@Wondermule

Just RTFT is anyone else laughing at all the Wales/Scotland/Ireland posters and their neuroses 😂😂😂

It's not neuroses, it's having the upper hand.

@Puffalicious proving my point nicely chill out fgs!

Disagree! I live in a small village...our back garden backs onto a farm, it’s heavenly.

But...I would swap that for a sea view On a Maldivian / Greek / Italian beach any-day! lol xx

Also for the Lake District lovers, every time I visited it absolutely pissed down with rain!

That is god watering her beloved garden

Most countries are nice on a spring day.

Yes @AlohaMolly!

Best place to see up the valley

It is beautiful. I spent time at the allotment this weekend and felt really calm and peaceful for the first time in a while. It's lovely to see my rhubarb, apples trees and gooseberry bushes all start to bud and wake up.

i love it, i love the birds singing and the yellow flowers,

England is beautiful, and I feel very privileged to have a wonderful view of open countryside from my front window.

But the rest of the UK and ROI is beautiful too, and for lovely beaches, the west coast of Ireland is hard to beat.

The British landscape is remarkably beautiful and diverse imo. We have mountains (albeit small ones lol), lakes, fens and wetlands, downland, forest and an incredibly varied coastline: rocky cliffs and coves, great expanses of sand (and some beaches that combine both), pretty estuaries and creeks and best of all, you're never more than about 70 miles from it.

And it is at it's most beautiful in spring, when it's all fresh and new.

@TotorosFurryBehind

You clearly don't live in Plymouth. I would give anything to be in the Dordogne right now...

Get yourself up the Tamar valley, it's really beautiful.

@countrygirl99

Depends where in England. Tven in January there are a lot of places prettier then the Fens in spring.

I think parts of the fens have a sort of eerie beauty.

That famous view of Ely cathedral from the fens is just lovely. But yes, it wouldn't beat Cornwall or the Cotswolds in a beauty contest.

Ireland!🇨🇮 😜 But have to say looking out over the Kent countryside is a very close second.

i saw my first primroses of the year this morning.
beautiful

@Puffalicious educate myself on what? The dulux green colour chart? 😂

I think it is heightened this year as we have had such a tough winter. We also know spring brings a slow lifting of restrictions. I can’t wait to take my toddler for a walk in the bluebell woods then have a ‘pub garden moment’ in the sun ☀️ it will feel extra special this year.

@MiddlesexGirl
I’m now imagining some kind of scene constructed from council logos from across the nation, you realise?
When I was wee it struck me that the crown!people looked a bit as if they were playing the hokey-cokey OR were in a game of “In & Out The Dusky Bluebells” but the person/people weaving through weren’t visible: I quite liked the idea they were dancing about when nobody watched. (When I say wee, I mean about two, to be clear...)
Hilly Fields can indeed be lovely; but I can’t wait just to be able to go to the wee park at the top of my road.

@ThePlantsitter
And let’s not forget we’re partly responsible for kickstarting the HUGE modernisation-Westernisation process in Russia. Radical Deptford wheelbarrows, etc. Going to take me a while to work my way back up to walking to the Thames, but after a year of strict shielding (my “relaxation” = being allowed to put things in the outside bins if I wear a mask & distance etc... no gallivanting for me... yet) the wee park at the top of my road might as well be the Garden of Eden. I’m sure actually seeing the goose poo & few times [almost] being bowled over by children on scooters will do the trick when it comes to removing the romance of it, but for now...

@Wondermule

YES.

Spring is a much bigger deal in England than in the rest of the UK, probably because of our pagan roots - the whole spring representing fertility thing.

Mayday was a big deal where I grew up and I bloody loved being a Maypole dancer always followed by a sort of beer festival in the barn next door where the parents would all get drunk

England also has a kind of meadow-y, lush softness to it that Wales and Scotland don’t have. It’s very green, and has the fairytale woodland thing going on with the thatched houses and gentle slopey hills.

Totally agree.

I live in the South West among pretty dramatic hills and a backdrop of coastal scenery (don't want to be too specific) and while I have been to and adore the Lakes, Scotland, Ireland and New Zealand, there is something about the balmy softness of the air around here in Spring which makes it so special.