The end of winter

It was another warm and sunny morning, so we thought it was time to get the tortoise house out  of the shed, lest Stormin' Norman  felt like stirring soon from his hibernation. We set the house down in his enclosure and opened up the "drawbridge" , and within a few minutes he had emerged!
He crawled to the sunniest corner of the enclosure, basked there for a couple of hours, then wandered  back to his house and settled  into his bed of hay. I think we can say winter is officially over ( at least here in our sheltered Hampshire garden).
This  evening we went out for  a very good meal with our friend  YY, at the Peat Spade inn at Longstock.