[Return of Winter....]

Just look at those hedgerows and tiny fields! Bet they're all great prairies now or been built on Lovely pictures.

Never mind March snow, there's been lying snow 3 or 4 times on my mother's birthday, the 2nd May, in Sussex too (although we used to live 700 ft asl) — I remember because she hates the stuff and would complain bitterly.

[Winter 2007-08 - What went wrong. Why was it mild?]

Jimmy, although I agree about the mildness down here, I'm afraid I can't believe that the may/hawthorn is flowering anywhere yet, even in London. Are you sure, mate? And I presume you mean that the horsechestnuts leaf buds are bursting, not that they're starting to flower?

I think he may mean blackthorn, this has been in blossom for the past few weeks around our way — still a couple of weeks early for it but it commonly gets confused for hawthorn.