I went hunting spring wildflowers on Friday but was, for the most part, disappointed. There was an abundance of Lesser celandine leaves but no sign of any flowers, and the merest sprinkling of Snowdrops, though no open flowers. I was, however, much more lucky with Primroses, with a single plant flowering amongst a sea of plants on a grassy hillside in a local park.

And then a circuit of the yard around a local church brought another plant flowering amongst the graves. Spring is coming …