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Despite the awful weather I've decided spring is definitely on it's way - I saw my first lamb of the year on Saturday (05.01.08)! It was in a field beside the A55 near Holywell in North Wales with it's mum. I'm not sure if there was just the one as it's hard to tell when you're whizzing past in a car at 90.. I mean 70 miles an hour (O.H. driving!) It made my day!

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Into every life a little rain must fall.

Way hey, let's hope that it is then we can push our seed sowing forward by a month or so .

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Yup Spring's definately here.... My rhubard is making an appearance already and my autumn fruiting raspberries have some very healthy dark green new leaves on them

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"There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children; one of these is roots, the other wings" - Hodding Carter

My daffodils are up. I think it always happens earlier than we think.

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Push seed sowing forward lol i started sowing on 27th December but then i have got well over 400 varieties of veg to sow plus what ever bedding plants i decide to do !!

One or possibly 2 of my hens have started laying again, not every day but so nice to have a home-grown egg again. Spring for me too now.

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updated 14 May 2008

No signs here! -2 until midday, in fact the frost never really left us all day and -2 again now. No signs of anything yet.

Lambs !!!! We don't get ours until Mid April - I never thought I'd say a sheep was sensible but perhaps ours are.

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Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway.
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Baby lambs already!
Not been to the lottie or in the garden yet this year....think it's time for a wander and a nosey at Nature at it's best.

I did see a tree with a bit of cherry blossom on it a couple of weeks ago here in Cheshire- but that must have been a freak tree??

The buds on one of my new plum trees have started fattening up though!

Not necessarily a freak Nicos. We have a winter flowering cherry in the front garden. It flowers on bare branches then when the flowers are finished it gets its leaves. Looks like slightly pink snow on the branches as I look out at it now.

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vegheaven.blogspot.com Updated Sept 7th 2008

I'm still waiting for winter. We never did get the minus seventeen that was promised last week. I'm off to lottie for first time this year, will let you know what's what.

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A few snowdrops are coming out too but I suppose that's not so unusual but it cheers me up anyway!

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Into every life a little rain must fall.

The first few signs of daffodil shoots are out here but the weather definitely aint spring like - mind you .... cold, wet, dark, miserable ...

Lets hope we have a spring like last year and a summer like spring

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Small but definite buds on the lilac, the holly was covered in berries a couple of weeks ago, now most of them have gone.

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My daft rosemary was blooming before Christmas! Usualy I don't get flowers till April/May.

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vegheaven.blogspot.com Updated Sept 7th 2008

Any daffs that show their heads at the moment will get them blown off in this wind. No sign of my snowdrops yet, but my summer snapdragons are still in flower. I meant to empty the dalek at the weekend but as it's full of tiny mice, I didn't have the heart.

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No real indication of spring here yet; the temperatures are mild, but the weather is wet, miserable and dark. Still, our local garden centre did have it's seeds on display today along with soft-fruit bushes/canes and little pots of snowdrops, so the signs are there I suppose.
No seed potatoes yet though, - I always start to feel spring-like when I buy the spuds.

Do you mean they're flowering Aloice, or just the green bits? If they're flowering then that does seem early to me, we usually get the odd one towrds the end of Jan. beginning of Feb., only got the leaves at the mo. Here's a pic. of some of the snowdrops in bud now.

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Into every life a little rain must fall.

Sure don't feel like Spring up here today - gale force winds and driving sleet - if this is Spring, I'm gonna emigrate !!

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Rat

British by birth
Scottish by the Grace of God

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That is Spring in Scotland isn't it Rat? Thought you were tough up there, just get your thermal kilt on & get out in it man! We actually had gales, hail & a thunderstorm all at the same time last night here!

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Into every life a little rain must fall.

Our Daffs have been up for what seems like a few weeks now - no flower buds yet, but the leaves are around 4-6 inches long now.

I've seen what I thought were cherry trees in bloom this morning funnily enough. It's usually dark when I drive to work, so I don't/haven't noticed, but this morning I set off a bit later.

I do love spring.

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Not complaining about the weather we have up here just now as it is only to be expected - just suprised that some of my fellow grapes are already hailing the arrival of Spring - only just recovering from the New Year, and an any case, I believe that the worst of the winter weather in recent years has arrived in February. As for thermal kilts, they are already thermal - 8yds of pleated heavy material traps a lot of hot air
PS - my lil sis gave me 2 sets of thermals for my Chrimbo.

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Rat

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Scottish by the Grace of God

[size="1"]Journal updated Tuesday 5th August

How have you faired with the wind? I don't mean the Jerusalem Artichoke kind either!

Looking at the wether report this morning, gusts have been ferocious!

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A simple dude trying to grow veg.

http://haywayne.blogspot.com/ - Updated - 25th August

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To be fair, it's very windy here with gusts up to 70mph but it's been much worse in Central Scotland with Argyll and Tayside suffering the most.

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Rat

British by birth
Scottish by the Grace of God

[size="1"]Journal updated Tuesday 5th August