Yellow clementines and purple crocii and white snowdrops have given way to golden daffodils and blue grape hyacynths. The garden is at last looking greener and the lawns have been cut twice despite having snow yesterday and hail so thick this afternoon that I could 
not see through it. Some of the flowers now look a bit bedraggled but the colurs are great to see. Its very cold in my 'office' here. No heating at this end of the house and not worth lighting a fire. Wear lots of clothes is the answer.The good news is that we ae going to try B&B in thewing at the back of the house with possible short term holiday lets a week at a time. It will be interesting to see what sort of take up we get. We do have under cover parking so a bit of security and when it ever warms up the pool will be open.. It seems extraordinary at the moment to think of swimming but even in last years rather miserable summer the pool was warm enough to swim until October.
