First snow

.

Icing sugar dust

just enough to turn green white

winter in full bloom

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Below zero

.

A proper winter

just how I remember it

frosty cold and dry

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Winter chill

.

The mild weather yields

conceding territory

cold winter begins

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English climate change

.

Dry spell continues

after such a wet winter

a summer-like spring

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Ever so slightly cool

 

Soft wind sweetly blows

gently soothing sun-soaked skin

it’s not yet summer

 

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Upside

.

These summer-spring days

small compensation for the

lock down misery

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Although I have to say that I am enjoying the slower pace and quiet streets. Of course the full horror of the virus is too much to bear, but I am clinging to simple pleasures.

Some good comes of it

 

Social distancing

leads me to the allotment

two years neglected

 

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Following the deaths of my father and father-in-law over the last two springs and all the ensuing emotional and practical baggage (plus a smattering of unhelpful weather), it has been almost two years since I went to my allotment. Somehow I’ve not yet been kicked off.

I visited it yesterday and I have my work cut out for me this spring (if allowed to go there) it is covered on grass and brambles. My son has volunteered to help me get it sorted, because he needs distractions from the probable boredom ahead. It felt good to see it again, and I got all my seeds out today to prepare for a new season.

Shift

 

Early Spring again

though Winter’s business is yet

incomplete, undone.

 

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Kick-off

 

Another season

highs and lows, disappointment,

ecstasy; football

 

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Autumn cut

 

Out come secateurs

as wisteria leaves drop;

autumnal milestone.

 

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