I've been for a walk around my favourite local nature reserve today, the sun was shining, it was warm and I saw my first cowslips of the year. To me the flowering of cowslips means that spring has arrived, has it? How I hope so after this seemingly never-ending winter.

I've seen some around too recently, and the weather has been brilliant the last couple of days here (after rain was forecast) so perhaps spring is here? Lets hope so!