The weather may still be cold and wet but there is a distinct air of Spring.  Walking the dogs in the Forest the signs are there - green clumps of grass-like bluebells starting to shoot through.

I was driving Rud to the train a week ago when I came up the hill on the back road through the Forest to the house and had to stop for a small herd of deer in the road.  They milled about a bit, debating what to do, and then one after another hopped over the hedge (which is chest-height) as if it was a foot high, into the Forest and were gone.

My marine fish tank, set up after Christmas, is doing well - pictures to follow.   Plus the new car goes like a dream although i will try to avoid waxing TOO lyrical about the Alfa Romeo, except to say that the compute system, Blue&Me is fantastic.  Reads my phone, dials via voice and steering wheel control straight out of my phone in my handbag, and plays all my music off a memory stick just like on the PC with playlists, folders etc all intact in the car.  Fully automatic - gears, windscreen washers and wipers, lights, door locks, etc etc.  If only the indicators were automatics it would save me doing anything but steering...

Life is good.  As a trainee homoeopath I've been well for quite a while and been to see my OWN homoeopath for a consultation which has done me the power of good.  I just feel very very well indeed!

The garden is full of tiny bulb flowers and crocuses, the woods are full of birds, Roxy is in season (please let there be puppies, please let there be puppies) and life here is - well, pretty awesome really.

Here's a picture of the little girl up the road that I made a sweater for this winter.  I make so many sweaters for myself that I  never take pictures of but this one was so lovely and she liked it so much that i thought I'd show it off!

I think Gilly thought it was tasty!