What month is it?

Only had my phone as we went over the moor in icy, sleety winds with 2 friends this morning, but saw this gorse flowering - Mr C said yesterday that were 368 different plants flowering this week, when 26-28 is the normal amount. This was from BBC website though I don't know where they picked it up, but it does seem to indicate something about climate change.

We walked to the next village to meet our walking group (who had all arrived by car!) to have a pub lunch and plan who was organising which month's walk. Having had November last year we are getting August this time as it gives a longer day for a decent-length / longer walk which seems to be our role.