Springsummer is here!

[owl]

The spring and summer seem to have come all on top of each other. It's been really warm these last two days, all anticyclonic and hazy heat. The blackthorn is still out, and so are the primrose and the bluebells are starting. I went for a walk in the field opposite our house and I found violets! And celandine, bluebells, stitchwort and primroses. It all smelled of drying mud and that sweet-cocnut smell of whin in bloom.

I love this time of year, when the leaves are all still vivid green, and there's cherry blossom and lilac everywhere. Sadly, I don't think they'd survive up here on our cold, windy hill. Today we had the street at the back concreted. (For my American friends, the street means a bit of hard parallel to the house, not an actual street.) Now we shall be able to wash the car without creating a mudhole.

I found Five Red Herrings for sale for £1.99 in Oxfam. Now there's only Whose Body? that I don't own. Like Swallows and Amazons, where I don't own Picts and the Martyrs, or the Vorkosigan series, where I don't own Diplomatic Immunity...

Comments

[yubsie]

Hmm, I think we call that the driveway here.

And spring is so PRETTY.

[owl]

Driveway seems sort of suburban to me.