Spring is sproinging.

[bunn]

Sunday evening, my car, who is elderly and sometimes likes to come up with intersting surprises, decided to drop a window into the door and leave it there, so I'd taken it down into Gunnislake to at least get the window jammed in the 'up' position while the garage searched for a second-hand spare part on Ebay (I love that they do this automatically

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[heartofoshun]

What an early spring! We haven't had much of a winter here. But in NYC that does not guarantee an early spring because winter can linger on and on until nearly summer!

I had to laugh at the car window--had one that did that also. I felt like it was trying to tell me it had enough of us! It didn't work. We did not let it off the hook that easy.

[bunn]

Ah, I feel my car is less trying to get rid of me than just, you know, very tired. All this holding windows up is such hard work. She just wants to rest :-D

But I feel 160,000 miles on the clock is nothing like enough so she will just have to get her act together!

[puddleshark]

Fortunately he doesn't have the nerve to try it on with Rosie, who would certainly hand him his floppy ears if he did...

Laughed so hard at this... As someone with a spaniel who regularly embarrasses me by humping the legs of complete strangers.

I haven't seen any signs of spring when I've been out walking the bridleways - no bumblebees on the gorse flowers. But the daffodils are flowering enthusiastically in gardens in the village.

[bunn]

That's a point about the bees. We had bees right through December this year, but the frosts seem to have seen them off.

In further Theo hilarity, he tried to hump Nenya cat, and as you can imagine, got a pawful of claws to the nose. He now seems to have decided that humping is a bit too perilous as an activity, and has knocked it off... for now!

[anna_wing]

I was in the southern UK (Cambridge was the farthest north) at the beginning of February in 2016, 2017 and 2019, and each time it was clearly early spring rather than late winter. I assume that it is an effect of climate change.

[bunn]

That's a good point, I am probably still comparing against the cold, bleak and muddy springs of my youth rather than the more immediate past.

[ladyofastolat]

I keep meaning to make a note of when I notice certain key spring indicators, but never do. I expect I won't do it this year, either, despite reminding myself by writing this comment.

I've been seeing new growth of hawthorn for a couple of weeks now, and have thought it Very Early. Also, my primroses have been in flower for weeks, although my mini daffodils aren't quite there yet. However, my Mum has some very early daffodils that sometimes are in flower at Christmas, and reports that this year they weren't in flower until mid January, so she tells me it is Not As Early As I Think.

Although we definitely get spring earlier here on the island than even just 100 miles further north, and usually a good month or more before Pellinor's family gets it Up North.

[bunn]

I definitely remember when we moved here that it was difficult to get hold of a daffodil for Pp to wear on March 1, and I planted some February Gold daffs in the hope of achieving this, but they still rarely managed March 1 - but now we usually seem to have a good number of daffs by then, so things have shifted a bit.

Even within the valley, it's surprising how much faster things flower on the sunny side of the hills, compared to us on the north side and facing out to Dartmoor.

[howlin_wolf_66]

I'm glad that Rosie is able to protect herself from overly-amourous attentions... :-)

[bunn]

Fortunately, Theo is basically quite a polite dog at heart. He rarely needs to be told off twice!