Maybe just a date on the calendar but I wish for the true spring with more sun and warmer temps and the lovely time of year when the buds start to open on all the trees and the spring tulips all over the place. Is it warmer there in Ireland?

9 degrees celsius today, with some rain. Our first daffodil is just opening, I'll post a pic tomorrow if I can. No leaves on the deciduous trees yet, but we have snowdrops and some primroses - it's a little early for tulips. We have had frost on a couple of nights in the past month, but no snow, which we would rarely get. The trouble is we have had hardly any rain where I live, on the east coast, and the reservoir could do with some. But I won't speak too soon. The frogs are out and about also.

Ha.. We don't get Spring for two more months.

Lucky you, I don't get Spring for another three months. Sadly I only get 5 good months of growing season here. Maybe with a greenhouse someday, I can get 7 or 8 good months.

M,

We celebrated St. Brigid's Day by getting about 10 cm of the white stuff. Spring's not quite 3 months away. -10C, too, but thankfully no wind.

Hi Oksana and Jeff, it's a wee bit chillier here today too, but not in the minuses, thank goodness ! Every evening is a little brighter, that's the bit I like. And now the first crocus has appeared too.