Joys of Spring

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I am getting ideas.......for when soop is feeling better!

Captured perfectly.

What a bright, cheerful wee boy that is. And super's portrait is just excellent.

Lovely wee lad. This was attempt number nine. I loved the challenge. Will do better next time. Should I change my name to soop? I like it. Is it a difficult task to perform? I'm inclined to get into a right tarrididdle...

Butter What a BRILLIANT bird. Can I have one for my garden - please.

Last night's capers have left me limpish. I'm about to take a sit-down shower, slip into some cool cotton jimjams and put my feet up. Can't stop giggling when I recall that party...hilarious

We used to hear hoopoes in Kenya. They went: hoo poo pooo. Do they do that in France, Butter?

super, I read that as 'impish'! So thought, 'no change there!' However, now I've read it correctly, I hope you feel a lot more like yourself tomorrow - in other words, 'impish'.

Hoo poo pooo! Yes Annobel.

Ah, then I can look forward to hearing that very evocative call in just over a week!

soop, the Mysterious Beings at GNHQ will help you. just ask them.

Annobel I read soop's post as "impish" too, we must be pre guessing what she's thinking!
Butter's birds are absolutely fantastic, how exciting to have those in your garden, beats blue tits and chaffinches any day

There's a wonderful hoopoe in Salman Rushdie's children's story ^Haroun and the Sea of Stories*. Great story too.

soop capers what a good idea! I will make caper sauce to go with my slow roasted lamb shoulder!

We've got roast lamb for Sunday too - caper sauce would be a good addition, thanks jeni I usually only do caper sauce with boiled ham so it'll be a nice change

Spring birthdays for my grandchildren . (Photos/Screen captures on profile)

Butter BEAUTIFUL grandchildren. Happy easter weekend

butter they are lovely!

Two gorgeous sweetiepies, butty!

Lungwort and violets flowering in my garden now
And two primroses on the front terrace
(Where there was one last year)
Which is supposed to be cinder gravel
But a lot of years of moss and earthworm work
Mean that it is grassed over.
I have to mow it and scythe back the periwinkles.
A bank vole came out of the dry stone dyke at the edge
And nibbled some grass and daisy leaves.
DD and I stood dead still.

Yes!
Violets and primroses
And periwinkles by the score.
Ginko Biloba in bud
Willow in fresh green robe
Huge marsh marigolds
Pale and dark heather
Cushions nestling between the rocks.
We have a resident vole
Neat-eared and bristly-whiskered
Goldfinch
Bullfinch
Chaffinch
Thrush
Blackbird
Robin
Wren
Happy garden sights and sounds
To gladden the heart.

Lovely pictures of spring from both of you, bags and super

I'm certain we have more primroses every year. For the record and for a pre-dinner breath of fresh air, I went out and counted them: 685, including buds that haven't opened yet. Amazing! I think this must be my flower-counting year. I don't usually.

bagitha Impressed! What a high score. Ours are in plump clumps, just over the fence where we meet the woodland.