On track for a purple carpet

In the morning it was gloriously sunny.  While Mr and Miss working on the jigsaw, see how unusual it is in the extras, I raced around the garden in my pyjamas chopping down some of last year's dead growth from the plants that we now regrowing.

By the time we headed out for a walk with Murphy it was starting to rain. We went to Micheldever Wood to check on the progress of the bluebells. Last year they were much late than previous years.  According to my blips by the 17th April 2014 they were then in full flower.  Today they were starting to flower.  We'll keep checking on progress. But there were lots of primroses - see extra