spring has arrived in deepest suffolk !!!!!!!

Yes please Rem 858, it's lovely here in Birmingham, sunny dry, dug a bed over now i think i need one

I've worked muscles today that I'd forgotten existed - may well need a hoist in the morning to get out of bed!!

Absolutely gorgeous here in "sunny" Manchester , not one drop of rain .  Had a laugh though, I got an e-mail from my pal who lives in Arizona, and she says they've got rain, sleet and wind - this is the place that is usually around 70 in winter - the same usual temperature in our summer.  I'm going there in September, so I'm hoping for some hot weather.

I've been to the allotment.  Took my onions and leeks that I grew from seed.  Got some compost to start other seeds - I've got cabbages, sprouts, caulis, peppers, celeriac, kohl, aubergines, and some flowers, but ran out of compost before I could do my toms.

Had to water my carnivorous plants - they have to be kept damp over winter and virtually a bog garden in summer.  Its my first year of trying them, they are very hardy apparently - we shall see.  They should be kicking into life from about next month.

There's been frost six nights out of the last seven here and there are still frost pockets on my plot that are not lifting properly till 2pm despite the bright, even warm sun in the day. It's still like having late December days at the moment except that the daylight is longer.

I'm not wasting time planting out till this cold spell gets itself well off my allotment. I might be late but I shan't be lost. It's only a pretend spring at the moment. 

And we had snow last Easter weekend which was mid March. Another week or so won't hurt as everything is ready to go down the plot.