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out on the bike today, warmish sunshine and dry roads
very pleasant indeed
This will be a great comfort as I pass the gigantic mounds of filthy slush which are piled everywhere on my way home.
This will be a great comfort as I pass the gigantic mounds of filthy slush which are piled everywhere on my way home.
I was just thinking that ha ha. TBH it's all but gone here in Cardiff bar a few hugh piles made by people clearing drives etc, but I was up by Ebbw Vale this morning and it's very much still a feature!
Wild garlic is starting to show and the tulips are out (galloway)
there were daffs out in some places 2 weeks ago here
TBH it’s all but gone here in Cardiff
Still partially blocking the road to Lisvane causing travel chaos.
Yea, i've seen a solitary daff out. Garlic shoots are showing themselves too.
Still partially blocking the road to Lisvane causing travel chaos.
Really? I thought everyone in Lisvane had Range Rover and Cayennes for just such an eventuality ha ha.
no hints about it today, proper lovely out today 14 degrees with warm glorious sunshine
Big furry Bumblebee!
Its sunny and I can hear bird song.
rode past this house just as a red kite swooped down for some food in the front garden, he wouldn't repeat it while i was filming though 🙁
Im out with the dog at first light every day, the dawn birdsong is increasing inivolume. Lapwings are in big numbers, and the Curlews have been heard for the best part of two weeks. This afternoon we were treated to a pair of skylarks hovering fifty or so feet over our heads and singing their hearts out. Loads of hares now around on the farm, and I have to keep the dog away from the hedges near the ponds as the Mallards are nesting. Lambing now in full swing, so the farmer is starting to look a bit frayed round the edges.
It's been lovely here in Cardiff, okay not what my Wife would call lovely (min 20c, no clouds, no wind) but she's hard to please at best.
It's hard to believe it's going to be so different tomorrow - other than the fact Morrisons are almost out of bread and milk again - seriously, you'd think the panic buyers would still have some stock from last time, their freezers must be full to bursting.
14deg and very springlike sitting out the front of my house today. Snow forecast for tomorrow and Sunday.
6 foot waves and bitterly cold 40 mph winds on the Esplanade at Kirkcaldy this morning.
Spring my arse.
12C blazing warm sunshine here on the Solent..
😎👍
lovely out today but it doesn't seem to be getting any warmer !
Where are the pics from Klunk, looks like round here'ish (Cirencester)
Went out riding yesterday morning, it was lovely (bar the Cotswold 'dust' necessitating a few stops to free up entirely clunged up wheels). Pint and a bowl of chips after, sat outside the pub in the sun 🙂
Don’t need many words when it’s this sunny do you.
Yup very warm out there today certainly T-shirt weather.
Where are the pics from Klunk
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Trying to muster up some energy to pop out as it's lovely out there this afternoon, given Southampton is expecting a lot of wet weather from tomorrow until after the Easter bank hol.
I'm struggling to remember the last bank hol weekend I had off that had decent weather all the way through, even jumping on a train to ride in The Mendips all day Thursday is rained out, arrrggghh! 😡
be gone with you all. still 2.5m of snow and gonna be minus 8 this week
Lovely day yesterday. Honey bees buzzing round the heather plants in the back garden, I was assembling a new bird table while wearing shorts and tee shirt, flowers are gradually coming out, and a rather sad primrose I discovered hiding under an ugly evergreen shrub I cut down is a mass of blossom, a little hawthorn I dug up and transplanted to fill a gap in a hedge has now got green shots showing, my little apple tree is showing signs of coming into leaf, and there’s a crow out snapping off twigs from my silver birch for nest material.
There’s violets out on a grassy bank on the way home from town today as well, and I’ve got a mass of cowslips that are taking over part of the lawn and garden and they’re showing signs of flower buds too.
All looking good for later on.
The bluebells are sprouting all over in my local woods, the slippery bastards.
Daffs are out in Aylesbury. In Bratfud they’re barely poking out of the ground
There was dust at Dalby Forest this aft. DUST!
remnants of winter meet the hints of spring..... daffs, blossom but bloody cold 🙂
'twas marvellously springy up in the valley of the tweed at weekend...
Apart from where it was snowy obvs...
bloody cold for wall to wall sunshine 🙂
still not much green in the trees
Saw pair of swallows yesterday here in Devon just west of Exeter. Pretty sure they'll wonder why they bothered.
It was 23 degrees yesterday and blue skies! Pity I’m still ill to go for a ride after yet another bout of manflu . Even had the first mosquito buzzing around me as I was sat in the garden. Chucking it down today and down to 14 degrees mind.
Up Clumps this morning in the sunshine. Still not 'warm' but windless and felt delightful. Bring it on!
Am I wrong to be laughing at Klunk's photos of his Canyon? 🙂
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Council man was mowing the grass outside my office window this afternoon. And I might get to ride home in shorts..
Am I wrong to be laughing at Klunk’s photos of his Canyon?
🙂 I was trying to keep it vaguely bike related and as access to the local "off road trails" is currently under a couple of feet of water so i can't treat you to pictures of my simple!
Just ran QECP in sunshine and long legs but short sleeve running shirt.
The Sun has some warmth in it, but the ground is sodden...
I got a bit hot.
Also just back from qecp with kids - caterpillar in my hair too, so definitely spring.
Was pukka at Cwmcarn today, trails amazingly dry considering the recent rainfall. All good until i lost my chain off the front ring & the slack tangled at the rear mech almost eating into the rear wheel. I managed to limp back to the car park after 2 laps of a planned 4. New mech needed. Was great to be out in such fab conditions though.
Aye its almost dried out.
Not too far at all from Klunk (I can confirm that the delights of East Northants were bathed in glorious but oddly cold sunshine today), but a week of weather contrasts for me...
Tuesday on the roads.
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Wednesday in the woods.
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Although the sun made an appearance later on.
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Proper sunny today though.
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However, in spite of today's strong hints of spring, most of the local off-piste stuff looks like a worse version of bruneep's photo.
Beautiful on the way down to St Maws today, blue skies and fluffy cumulus, clouded over later, but still a lovely day. Service station car parks and eateries very busy as the armies of early emmets makes their way to and from the South-West. Bloody glad the new dualled section of the A30 over Bodmin is pretty much finished for the holiday season to start.
My g/f called to me a short while ago asking if I had a torch handy, (silly girl, I’ve always got a torch handy!) Anyway, she could hear a rustling noise out on the patio while she was having a smoke, so I had a look, and sure enough one of our hedgehogs has woken up and was prowling around. Good thing too, slugs are starting to attack things growing in the garden. 😁
bit warmer out today but the wind gusting to 33 mph was a bit of a struggle 🙂
I’ve got a whole bunch of cowslips trying to colonise my garden, started as a couple of leaves and one flower stem by the side of a short path dividing the lawn, now they’re popping up all over the place, and many of them have flowers coming up, which is a real spring thing!
After 2 more than decent days, Spring really has established itself in Wales, it’s raining pretty much North to South and East to West. Ha ha.
Our local trails (FoD) went from total slop last weekend to ‘Tell the Town Crier we’ve found a dry bit’ by Friday afternoon. It’s not by any stretch loamy yet, but the difference was amazing. Shows how a couple of dry, warm and windy days make a massive difference. Riding in shirt sleeves as well.
P-Jay’s rain has arrived here now so I expect it to be full on slop-fest again tomorrow. I thought I’d seen some bluebells but was informed that there are in fact more than one purple flower and this was one of those 😉 Wild garlic is coming out tho. And that makes bluebells seem grippy!
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Spring sprung yesterday 🙂
Got hit in the face by a rogue bumble bee last night. Spring is here.
Green beer.
(One for the Hampshire/Wiltshire/Dorset area folks...)
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Bootiful spring weather (if a little windy) in East Devon yesterday.
4 days ago you could barely tell what colour the bike was under the mud. This was yesterday after 20 miles of offroad riding....
Saw pair of swallows yesterday here in Devon
Well they made it home to North Yorkshire cos I saw them at Nosterfield along with somw Sand Martins!
My g/f has seen bumbly bees going into a hole in one of the sheds, and I’ve been watching the robin bustling around fetching stuff for the nest he’s building in the leylandii hedge, and one of the cowslip flowers is open, with several others close to opening. My apple tree is showing lots of leaf, and the little hawthorn I dug up and planted to fill in a gap left by a horrid old elder is coming into leaf, so flowers should follow.
I’ve got a celandine I dug up and planted out back has got loads of flowers on it, so if that spreads, along with the cowslips and primroses, it should be a bit more colourful at the bottom of my garden in future.
peacock butterfly in the garden today along with some bumblebees
What a gorgeous looking village that Klunk posted pics of. Was most intrigued by the church and in case anyone else is here's a website with great pics inside and out. Check out the stained glass window!
http://www.northamptonshiresurprise.com/organisation/grafton-underwood-st-james-the-apostle-church/
It's definitely turning a lot greener around our local woods.
Not long now and all this will be bluebells.
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hints of green today
bloody warm by the end 🙂
Commute was lovely this morning down here in E.Kent. Bit too cool for shorts + t-shirt yesterday on way home, but might get away with it this evening.
Can you see him?
Yup, just about!
Beautiful day today, shorts and tee shirt, watering the garden, first bluebell of the native ones I planted has come out, the hedgehogs are wandering about, loads of cowslips out on the lawn, and looks like there are loads of flower buds showing on my little apple tree. All looking good.
This last two weeks have been sap-ful. I took snaps:
Daffodils with gratuitous heavy-metal decor. (Astley Hall)
Gress snaerk emergin, ayet? (Stourport)
Some weird garlic stuff that ain't ramsons (Newland, Worcs)
Some ground stuff springing (North Wales):
bloomin' eck it's like high summer out there @ 10.30 in the morning April 19 I am absolutely dripping ! 🙂 23 deg !! already