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Wonderful soft sunshine this morning, saw the first open daffs as I cycled down the Mall, with Kinnock being amiably Welsh in my headphones
All very appropriate: Dydd Gŵyl Dewi hapus!
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
Wonderful soft sunshine this morning, saw the first open daffs as I cycled down the Mall, with Kinnock being amiably Welsh in my headphones
All very appropriate: Dydd Gŵyl Dewi hapus!
Show-off Caliban I couldn't rustle up one Welsh word for my special Welsh friend, Roland, still driving and playing the organ in several places, including a crem[!] at 92 this year. Incidentally, a retired Barrister too.
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
saly, you meant to say in Welsh: Caliban - Mae'n dangos ei hun o hyd !!
Beautiful sunny day here after very thick mist this morning and overnight, just over 11 degrees and rising.
Few cirrus whisps, otherwise clear skies here over a hazy London, shade temperature 11.3 C here too, though seemingly much warmer in the sun, when I could have dispensed with the jacket while out shopping with the Spring in my step. Trees all of a sudden in flower that don't normally blossom here for another month. COTW Sally Beamish's 3rd string quartet, now atmospheric, now full of bounce, seems so perfect an accompaniment - so thumbs up for whoever was responsible for timely planning.
Trees all of a sudden in flower that don't normally blossom here for another month
The white flowering cherries are in blossom, (so beautiful, they look like they're covered with snow) the pink flowering ones just starting to unfurl. The daffodils have been out for some days, there is a grass bank round the corner entirely covered in primroses, all the hazel catkins are out, suddenly it's looking very pretty, snowdrops are still going strong and we got to 16.2 (61) at two o'clock. Thanks for forecast S_A, Met Office says we'll get the heavy rain on Sunday as well - but as sleet, which doesn't bode well for the blossom. I wish we could send some of today's weather across to Marthe!
Very pleasant here in Kent. Sky having a snooze upstairs after a long run this morning and I've had the rabbits in the garden for the first time in months. Getting a bit nippy now.
Very pleasant here in Kent. Sky having a snooze upstairs after a long run this morning and I've had the rabbits in the garden for the first time in months. Getting a bit nippy now.
Welcome back to your thread Mahlerei. Yes been nice around here too but stupidly I didn't go out but did boring jobs. Still, let's hope there is more nice weather to come.
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
According to a 16th-century joke, the Welsh were famous for their love of toasted cheese – St Peter was said to have got rid of a troublesome "company of Welchman" who were troubling the peace of heaven by going outside and shouting caws pobi – "that is as moche as to say 'Rosty'd ches!' Which thynge the Welchman herying ran out of heven a grete pace".
And who wouldn't be tempted from eternal bliss by such a prospect?
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