Spring is born

It's officially the first day of Spring on this side of the world and I went out walking with high hopes, sniffing the air expectantly like Mole in The Wind in the Willows.

There was the occasional glimpse of blue in the sky, but the sun failed to make it through the clouds. I saw no daffodils in the fields, only a few in town gardens and sitting inside people's houses in vases on window sills.

BUT through a hedge I saw lambs, twins quite newly born! Hurrah for them and for the Spring that is surely now coming.