Perfect

I thought these were rather early. Certainly the truly wild ones in the lawn are still just leaves - it will be several weeks before they flower. I started online digging to see if there's is some other similar species they might be

There are oxlips, but the calyx on oxlips is striped with darker colour, rather than uniform green like this. There are things called "false oxlips" which, confusingly, are a naturally-occuring hybrid of cowslip and primrose. But they do look like half-bred primrose, in a way that these do not.

I think I have to conclude that this is some cultivated variety of cowslip that flowers early. It is also in a favoured place - a bit sunnier, a bit of protection by surrounding plants, no competing grass roots to contend with. Heart-warming on a dreary day

I'm feeling photographically humbled. Some pictures from our son and his partner of a two day walk along the 'Kinder Skyline', including a falls where wind-blown water flows upward; also a fruiting lichen called "devil's matchsticks", like this one

https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-cladonia-floerkeana-lichen-devils-matchsticks-74644370.html

Maybe you have seen it; I never have

Then, we are finally catching up with Attenborough - watched the first one tonight. Jaw-dropping, awe-inspiring. Shot after shot where you think "how could they possibly do that?" So much that is so good that they don't need to emphasise or over-play anything, so that it actually feels understated

He has announced that this will be his last, and the sense of fulfillment and valediction is present in every syllable and frame. But so is the sense of loss and tragedy and danger. He does not need to deliver some polemic or a secular sermon. The catch in his voice and the sadness in his eyes is enough to tell you the enormity of what we have done and his fear for us

I read that cowslips smell of apricots. Tomorrow I'll try to find out of it is true - that would be perfect