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

My wisteria is beautiful atm

Anorak i love you!

anorak - you are going to bermuda? why ? how come?

Her husband is some top shot and they are going to bermuda for 2 whole years. Anorak is going to lay on the beach and organise the next Christmas meet.

SJ, I only just flitted back in - it is a fab pic, beautiful boy and beautiful bluebells

anorak, blimey, how come? (Not that anyone wouldn't want to move to Bermuda, the policemen wear white shorts don't they?)

To save a hijack here's anorak's Bermuda thread

Fivefingeredfiend are you someone I know by another name? Your declaration of love is very touching, but we hardly know each other...do we?

Suzy? Are you too overcome with emotion to talk to us?

Thinking about it I am wondering if FFF is really Sherlock.

Where is Sherlock atm?

yes
I am overcome indeed
it was the horse chestnut candles that tipped me over the edge

Oh the horsechestnuts on Hampstead Heath, walking past them with your summer frock on for the first time and feeling the warmer breeze about your nethers...ahhhh.

Shiny, that is a splendid picture, thanks

FFF you are most levelling

Bermuda, eh?

I may go and have to watch the box set of Prime Suspect, yes I know it's all filmed in winter but it's the closest I've got

I am not going to read this thread Suzy, I have just filled in the most HIDEOUS form immaginable for our Australia stuff, do not tell me that I would want to come back

would you come home do you think?

PS: Our park is pink with blossom and dd1 said "it is like being at a wedding mummy, is it congetti (confetti)?"

no, I wouldn't come back, but I can no longer deny my strong emotional roots and the fact that England has made me who I am.

email me and tell me about the form, go on

the smell of cut grass
seeing your neighbours for the first time in 4 months
we have a family of starlings in our shed, the parents are working their shiny blue and green speckles arses off

it is death by paper

I huffed and threw it at dh in the end

fgs

Anorak

come on, more please, I 'm half way through my vino now.

Rain.

Has anyone said that? Its pouring here.

i feel so sad ro you sw

oh don't feel sad for me, just indulge me

Red Admirals and cabbage whites and enormous bumble bees.

Catkins and pussy willow.

Babies in buggies with bare legs waving in the sun.

Bright technicolour yellow fields of rape seed. White and pink appleblossom which looks like snow. How green every thing is. The way we all get ridiculously exited at the first sign of some sun, putting hot pregnant feet into flip flops.....
Long days....

and buddlea? [sp]

actually, Wendy, your name is making me very homesick, my parents have all the Posey S immons books of that cartoon strip and I always used to read them over and over again when I went home

Can you name all your six children, I wonder?

Actually rain can be lovely too. Especially after it hasn't for a while. And if it didn't rain it would all get brown and dusty - which is what I tell my kids when they whinge about rain. I like rain now I think about it.... Which is fortunate.

Howabout the bright green of new beech leaves against a blue sky. Apple blossom - my parents garden is full of it atm.

I remember reading about an Australian woman who had moved here and said she loved the seasons - watching the green of the spring moving upwards as everything slowly comes to life.

What, me, right now? There is a Benji, and Jocasta, and....nope, am stuck right there, will have to pop and downstairs and check out my books

Amanda & Tamsin, the twins - oh shit, Jocasta isn't even mine, she's Stanhope's - Sophie, Beverley and Belinda, apparently - 5 girls and only 1 boy???

When I said Jocasta, Belinda was the one I was thinking of

Will have to reread avidly. Marina caught me out with a ref to the Snotty Throttlers the other day.

Just who is that Five fingered fiend? Hmm. Beginning to suspect fio now.

Ah yes, now something I do like is watching the birds flying about with twigs in their beaks as they build their nests.

And I love the scent of the wallflowers in my front garden.

now if you asked about Spring in Scotland i would say the Yellows on the Broom