First Saturday of Spring.

The weather forecast was very mixed for today.
Heavy rain apparently arriving at some point this afternoon.
So far, after a very restless night with lots of weird dreams, I’ve managed to function even with the lack of sleep.
In one dream episode Stephen and I were taking the late Queen Elizabeth out for a walk somewhere in the countryside! (She will always be the real Queen to me).
Only I remembered I’d forgotten something so went back to retrieve it. Then couldn’t catch them up.
This morphed into the town where I grew up asking my cousin had she seen Stephen and the Queen!
I woke up at that point, somewhere around 4:30am and had a drink of tea from the flask which I have by the bedside each night at the moment.
And very welcome it was too! A sense of normality!
After our lunch out, on the way home I spotted a lovely verge of daffodils, (main photo)
Since then Stephen accompanied me on a short walk along the boundary of the school fence and back. Spring is burgeoning in all the front gardens, it’s so lovely
I didn’t need to wear a coat as it is around 15-16C and no wind. The air smells damp after last night’s rain, and right now at 16:22 after I’d done a tour of the back garden once we’d done the stroll, I’m sitting at the small patio table nearest to our large patio window with a fruit tea.
The cloud cover is is total.
Bluetits, Great tits, and dunnocks are all calling. The tits tend to be two tone and at the moment there is a group of Goldfinches with their fast-paced wittering song, set against the melodic one of of our garden robin.
Aside from that everything in the neighbourhood seems so quiet.
Soon be time for me to go indoors as I’m just beginning to feel a little chilly.
Stephen has gone to the gym, and will be back at teatime.
I love it out here.
The garden needs a lot more work yet especially the bottom beds near the house which is what passes for a rockery!
But for now it will have to wait.
Hope you all have a good weekend.Extra photo is one of my Camellia shrubs beginning to flower.
I’ve had it a long time now, as it was given to me by parents at the last school I worked at over 20 years back.