Tulipa sylvestris

A ray of sunshine!   Not that we are going to be short of them if the forecast is even half correct.  Despite our mostly cold spring, it's flowering earlier this year.  I blipped it on 16th April last year.

I started the day at Jamie's where we had a mid-morning pancake brunch and chatted about his plans for the future.  Having felt fine when I arrived, I was hit by a headache and sore throat so left him after a while to go home and rest.  Hopefully it's just my body's early warning system again and a couple of quiet days will fix me.   

So, an afternoon sitting in a comfy chair, working on my talk for this week.  I'm in Derby on Wednesday evening, they've asked for Crocus and Colchicum which is a variation which combines bits of two other talks.   All sorted now.   Late afternoon I took Meg for a walk in the woods at Ynysymaengwyn, just outside Tywyn.   Impossible not to notice a very distinctive noise in the trees and looking up I spotted the little chap in the extra pic at work.  Sadly I didn't quite manage to click the shutter to catch the vital moment of impact!