I was out in the garden yesterday; finishing off this seasons pruning and planting snowdrops from my Mum whilst still green, they’ll look great next year. The pond is coming back to life: water boatmen making an appearance amongst the new green shoots of the aquatic flora.
That beautiful spring day got me thinking about the weather, as we Brits do, and I’m hopeful that this year will be more ‘normal’.
This winter, the UK news was full of the unnaturally cold harsh weather conditions; to a typical Briton, cold harsh weather means temperatures around 0°C and a few inches of snow, whilst blistering heat is anything above 30°C.
Personally, I found the weather this year pretty reminiscent of a typical British winter. It should be snowy and cold in the winter, and dryer and warmer in the summer, it’s the last couple of years that have been abnormal: warm and very wet throughout the year.
If the normal patterns are reasserting themselves, I’m afraid the next sign to look out for are the April showers. But if we get them then maybe, just maybe that warm sunny summer will be with us in June.