I am very homesick - tell me lovely things about England in Spring time please

[suzywong]

It's OK, I've got a bottle of French wine to sob in to for later

awwww
I get homesick too (for Canada)
well.....daffs are all dead now and lying on the ground looking pretty sad......

(is that a happy thing or not?)

Easter chocs are all less than half price everywhere you go.....

This morning I drove across St Albans, there were little brown bunnies munching grass at the kerbside, blue tits twittering in the verges and a big sweep of bluebells behind the trees lining one bit of the road.

All the little boys in school are starting to wear shorts, and the mums are braving their flip-flops.

I went shopping and instead of stewing steak, cabbages and potatoes I bought continental charcuterie, smoked mackeral, green beans and salad stuff.

Ah Suzy I need you I am going to be an expat soon and you have so much to teach me!

Here in the sunny South West it's green as green can be, you know that lovely fresh green when everything is new, it's beautiful.

Will this actually help Suzy???

But, if you insist.. when you look around and in the middle of every glorious expanse of green there is a riot of colour; red, pink or orange..

Lambs in fields. Saw a posse of about a dozen last night.. some black, some white and some black AND white, all skipping away from their mothers together..

All the little leaves on the trees are that very pale, fresh green, suzy

anorak, where you going??????

The leaves unfurling on the trees are an incredibly bright green. Look all fresh and new. Can hear wood pigeons cooing in the garden. Wisteria out.
I love spring!

And those beautiful trees absolutely LOADED down with pink or white blossom.. and sometimes one tree will have pink AND white! I always think they look so pretty they could have been plucked right out of heaven.

The much-prophesied demise of the horse chestnut trees has failed to materialise and everywhere they are covered in their candle blossoms and thick with bright green new leaves suzy. English trees at their most beautiful IMO.
We walked along an urban stand of cherry trees on a breezy sunny morning and it was like being caught in a snowstorm. Dd was cackling with delight.
Bluebells are sprouting by their millions too
Children's parties have decamped to the back garden as of last weekend too. It's not spring without a child being catapulted into a muddy flowerbed by overenthusiastic use of a bouncy castle...
That do you ?

OK. You asked. All the chestnut trees in the park suddenly coming into leaf almost overnight. The landscape softening with all the new growth. Gentle breezes and soft blue skies. Primroses, violets, and the promise of bluebells to come in a few weeks. My kids wanting to be outside from morning to dusk - ps2 forgotten.

Also the smell of everyones else's BBQs...the thump thump thump of car bloody stereos because it's warm enough to have the windows open .

Oh yes...and it's threatening to rain....

I think we have a fresh, green consensus thing going here

Yes yes I love the blossom trees. And the magnolias are out too.

People are starting to do stuff in their gardens at weekends so you stop to chat when you haven't seen them all winter.

And chilled white wine watching the sun go down in a pub garden while the children play is back on the agenda.

WW - Bermuda

Snap WW!

On the bluebell theme, see here, DS looking lovely

we've seen a few butterflies in the backgarden
my little girls have planted up 2 wee garden patches with sunflowers

all the girls are wearing summer dresses to school, and the boys have on shorts!

Suzy, young people spit in the street, they litter constantly and the fear of crime is huge. The weather on the whole is usually dull, dull, dull. The binmen are rude, most people are rude. 'Service Industry' hah! i laugh maniacally at the irony. Good manners are on the decrease, so much so that one notices when someone says "thankyou" as your stood like one of lewis' holding the door for the hoards.

Do not fall for the Rupert Brooke esq.

Remember the trenches!

Ah FFF

Two men looked out from prison bars
One saw mud, the other stars

I'm looking out of my garret room at the Peaks now Suzy and the fields are a beautiful green patchwork with drystoned walls and white dots of sheep. The sky is pale blue with clouds skudding over and leaving shadows on the fields below.
...it is lovely...and i bearly even think to look up at it lately....just forget it's there.

however ...the route to school this morning was littered with dog turds...and the stench of rubbish collection day filled the air

Gawd! Suzy wanted to know about spring time! The turds and the rubbish is there all year round but now it's interspersed with spring flowers .... ahhhhh....

Hey someone comment on the picture of my beautiful boy in a bluebell wood.. I uploaded it to photobucket specially....

Oh I will flounce!

Just looked Shiny and he's blardy gorgeous
Fab boy

My clematis is laden with pink buds just ready to burst into flower.

Troutpout, you must live near me then (talking about the peaks, not the turds).

Why thankyou Troutpout how nice of you to say so