Despite.....

.......the sludge and hailstone. Pure and simple. A tiny clutch of Snow-drops peep through.

I'm happy to say, it's mid-day and Baxter is shattered from the muddy walk in Happy Valley (aka Happiness Valley) and I'm fairly smug knowing that that's one job done and apart from picking Rachel up from school at 3:20, I don't really have anything else to do today. There's always the ironing, but that can wait.