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 We have had some lovely Spring days recently and I have made the most of them a got on with jobs that needed doing in the garden. The area around the Summer house needed brightening up so I gathered together lots of pretty containers and planted them up and grouped them on the veranda of the summerhouse and the results were really cheerful.  I had a lot of fun turning this old Garden Sieve into an unusual plant display. I spray painted it, wound garden twine round it and added sticks for effect and then added spring flowers, pretty good for something that had lain around the garden unused for years.  This old chair got a makeover too with some spray paint and gold brushed in to give it a distressed shabby chic look, then I ran up a small cushion.  lovely little owl pot I found!  Tulips my favourite flowers  Apple blossom looks good this year  Pot Marigolds in full flower  Lettuce seedlings growing  A nice Spring display!  Dainty yellow

 A beautiful crisp and sunny Spring morning had us up and out early to head down to the boat. Our intention was to go up to the woods about an hour or so from base to see if they were in flower with all the Bluebells.  The journey up was lovely, the ducks were swimming about with their tiny fluffy offspring in tow, herons were feeding at the waters edge and swans were sitting proudly on huge nests of reeds at the canal side. I had not expected to have the woods to myself as it was such a beautiful day but it seems that the lure of the canal pubs is where most people preferred  to be,which was just fine by me. There cannot be many things as good for the spirits as a walk amongst the Bluebells with birdsong in the air and the sweet aroma all around you as the sun dapples everything in glorious light as it filters through the tree top canopy. People once believed that the bells called the fairies to meetings in the old woodlands and it took a brave person to wander through in case