I’ve been hard at it in the garden over the past few days. It’s been such a long hard winter, the garden was just full of detritus that had to be cleared away.

It’s amazing what a few frost free days can do for growth though and plenty of things are beginning to poke their noses through the earth.

I haven’t spotted any ants so far and I’m hopeful that the terrible long cold spell has done for a lot of them. I did see one ladybird which I think is quite an early visitor for this area anyway.

As you can see the crocuses are doing their best at the moment but the daffodils are only half as tall as they should be and nowhere near flowering yet – which is just as well given that we had a howling gale during last night and all today. That’s normal for this time of year though.