In message , Jack Harrison
writes
I wouldn't normally stoop to this level but I have to report that I
just sat outside reading the newspaper in warm sunshine. No top coat,
just a single pullover. If this were March, I would be describing it
as "the first day of spring", but it is after all, still January.


There was a cloud of midges over the concrete drive this morning.

We have crocuses and daffodils open, and a rosebud from last year still
struggling to open.

--
Peter Thomas