Monday 11.3.2019

"Changeable" the man on the box just said and it certainly has been - isn`t that what March is supposed to be?
Yesterday, a raw, bitter wind straight out of the east and flecked with snow had us scuttling up the hill for the shelter of the woods.
Later it snowed in earnest, the sky darkening in the early afternoon, and we`d clearly had the best of the day.

By this morning the snow had stopped falling and the sun blazed out of a clear blue sky across a white landscape, the wind still snapping at our ears but not enough to deter the recently returned lapwings tumbling across the fields.

Smaller birds in the woods were noisily marking out territory, while back in the garden a foursome of bullfinches acrobatically explored the trees for food and a pair of sparrows were living up to their reputation, as cited by Chaucer, of being "hot... and lecherous" as they chased each other around enthusiastically.

Despite the cold and snow Spring has obviously well and truly Sprung - in some quarters anyway.


In other news - KT Tunstall gig on Friday night at the Aberdeen Music Hall absolutely brilliant.