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Five degrees today. We are all complaining about the coldest spring in decades, but we have it easy in the south. House sparrows and starlings on my street seem quite excited and cocky with their lot; they have cosy eaves for the nests they are building. After days of headlines reporting livestock entombed in snow drifts and seabird corpses in the wake of north-eastern storms, the sprinkle of snowflakes as I write seems as benign as a cake decoration. In my garden the first lesser celandine gleams.
The frigid fields throbbed with larks early this morning. I watched several singing males spool themselves vertically towards the sun. The march into April should be bright yellow with sunshine and petals and egg yolks. Spring has been thwarted but not totally paralysed. There are cascades of catkins, sun-spots of coltsfoot and jubilant dandelions.
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