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On Friday Fives for Spring
Apr. 16th, 2018 09:31 am1) Has the weather where you are finally started acting like spring is here?
Only just and I'm not sure I trust it. It has been a cold and wet spring so far, The kind of weather that makes one consider that perhaps human conceptions like spring are misleading, perhaps unhelpful. We've had deep and disruptive snow in March and heavy snow in April. The rugby pitches are still being called off and the Meadows are still largely a bog. The last two days have ambled in to double figures and Carol Kirkwood tells me it will be 18 degrees in Edinburgh later this week. I will believe it when I see it.
2) Do you have any special spring activities or outings planned?
Spring is always tied in with my children's birthdays. When I played cricket spring marked the begining of the cricket season. It's also usually the time when I start paying attention to the garden.
3) Have you started wearing different clothing appropriate to spring?
I've cracked in to the budgie smugglers and flip flops for sure.
4) What signs of spring are manifesting around you?
The crocuses were crushed by the snow. The daffodils have arrived. A few shivering squirrels are arguing with each other in public. The kids at rugby have stopped wearing thermal vests under their tops. The main signs of spring are the clocks going forward and the days drawing out. And the way the poem on the window casts a shadow of words on the walls of the sitting room.
Oh, and Persephone keeps eating pomegranites in front of me as if she were auditioning for Susan Sarrandon's part in the Hunger.
5) Are there special foods you enjoy preparing and/or eating in the spring?
I like to have some roast lamb at Easter. MLW will start opening bottles of rose wine in the vain hope of invoking some warmth. I like to have a nice Nicoise salad and we'll start eating meze in the front garden.
Only just and I'm not sure I trust it. It has been a cold and wet spring so far, The kind of weather that makes one consider that perhaps human conceptions like spring are misleading, perhaps unhelpful. We've had deep and disruptive snow in March and heavy snow in April. The rugby pitches are still being called off and the Meadows are still largely a bog. The last two days have ambled in to double figures and Carol Kirkwood tells me it will be 18 degrees in Edinburgh later this week. I will believe it when I see it.
2) Do you have any special spring activities or outings planned?
Spring is always tied in with my children's birthdays. When I played cricket spring marked the begining of the cricket season. It's also usually the time when I start paying attention to the garden.
3) Have you started wearing different clothing appropriate to spring?
I've cracked in to the budgie smugglers and flip flops for sure.
4) What signs of spring are manifesting around you?
The crocuses were crushed by the snow. The daffodils have arrived. A few shivering squirrels are arguing with each other in public. The kids at rugby have stopped wearing thermal vests under their tops. The main signs of spring are the clocks going forward and the days drawing out. And the way the poem on the window casts a shadow of words on the walls of the sitting room.
Oh, and Persephone keeps eating pomegranites in front of me as if she were auditioning for Susan Sarrandon's part in the Hunger.
5) Are there special foods you enjoy preparing and/or eating in the spring?
I like to have some roast lamb at Easter. MLW will start opening bottles of rose wine in the vain hope of invoking some warmth. I like to have a nice Nicoise salad and we'll start eating meze in the front garden.
