What does spring mean to you?

[Catherine]

To me, spring is not just when days lengthen and birds become frisky again. It's when;

1. Plants you'd forgotten were there come into bloom,
2. the grass is cut and the garden furniture reappears, and
3. Glen is ensconced in his comfy, sunny seat in the pitstop, reading his library book once more!

What does it mean to you?

[rolf]

Nice photos Catherine, didn't realise Glen was actually in the pitstop when you took the photo until I looked closely.

Don't have any garden furniture, but things are certainly beginning to emerge in the garden and the lawn will need de-mossing and cutting shortly.

I always know spring has finally sprung when I head off over to France at the end of April for my little holiday at my sister's place.

[Catherine]

Wish MY sister had a home in France....

Do you go there soon?

(The white trainer, casually stretched out of the pitstop door, denotes comfort complete!)

[rolf]

Not until the end of April Catherine, in fact just booked via LD Lines, thought I'd have a change from the tunnel and works out a little cheaper overall, as the mileage is dramatically reduced and with the cost of fuel now, that makes a big difference. The ferry is around £25 more expensive, but I make a fuel saving of £60.

[Billy]

spring means bouncy bed!! lol

spring is like fresh air, like the world is yawning itself awake... i love wild windy autum winter, i enjoy peaceful spring but summer bores me!!

[Analoguesat]

Spring means

Its going to be warm enough to sit outside on the garden bench with a mug of coffee after work - or at the weekends a can of beer

Maybe get some hill walking in again


If its a warm morning start cycling into work a couple of days a week

NO MORE BLOODY SNOW TILL NEXT YEAR!!!!

[PaulSmith]

Spring means

Its going to be warm enough to sit outside on the garden bench with a mug of coffee after work - or at the weekends a can of beer

Maybe get some hill walking in again


If its a warm morning start cycling into work a couple of days a week

NO MORE BLOODY SNOW TILL NEXT YEAR!!!!

No, that's a can of beer during the week

A nice run around the village on a spring evening suits nicely.

[ladylouise62]

No, that's a can of beer during the week
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I like the way you think, Paul

[ladylouise62]

I love Spring - it's the way that everything seems so full of life... including me (well, 'full' may be exaggerating when it comes to me )
Like Catherine it's the way that bare areas of earth start to fill with greenery that means Spring to me.

Here are some of the 'sprung' plants in the town-centre park (The Forbury).

[Catherine]

How lovely, Louise!

What a picture those Crocuses make, just like a spring tapestry on the ground!

We went out a walk this morning, and I took a few pics..

The Violets looked so lovely, shy, yet winking cheekily amongst the grass and Ivy.
The Rhododendron was the first I've seen flowering this year.
The Hazel catkins looked so delicate. I've never seen Hazels as covered in catkins as they've been this year!
The lanes and roads in the New Forest area are full of character and surprises, and this one, the road up to Tiptoe on the edge of the NF Nat Park, is one of my favourites. (If only Beatrix Potter had stayed here!)