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It isn't a macho post, or anything like that, but I now have one fully opened daffodil on my plot. On January 31st. The stupid beggar hasn't seen the weather forecast for tomorrow or it might have thought again! Within a week, I will probably have a carpet of daffodils up all over the plot judging by how the rest look!
Tulips are also beginning to look serious about coming up with a couple of weeks, plus bluebells are growing extremely fast, too.
Global warming, eh?

Dear Barry, the first daffs out in Milton Bryan were on 23rd December on School corner, thats three weeks earlier than last year.

I'm starting to sound like that lady i used to know, whenever you told her you had heard the Cuckoo, she would say she had heard it two weeks before.

We have a bunch of dwarf daffs in a elevated bed which is very light soil and well drained. Normally flower early Feb. Flowered this year 24th January.

I just thought you might like to know that the daffodils in question lasted the entire month of February and have only been dead-headed today!
Significantly, despite threatening to open in their millions just after this one bloomed, my other daffodils are only now beginning to open. Odd, Nature, isn't she?

OK, OH

If I tell you that I heard a cuckoo this morning I doubt you would believe me.

As it happens I was not alone and three of us were absolutely astounded to hear one

Spring is here!

Dear Weed, you have got me all wrong, of course i believe you and your accomplices, sorry i mean friends.

Nearly forgot to say, how many drinks had you all had.

Weed, are you sure it wasn't a collared dove? They can sound suspiciously similar sometimes. Early March does seem to be too early for a cuckoo.

Monika... I do agree it extremely early and I couldn't believe it myself.

It was only when my two 'accomplices' also mentioned hearing it I began think otherwise

Dear OH.... I don't drink alcohol so therefore I have no alternative...I must plead insanity!