Signs of Spring

[Blodwyn Pig]

2/3 of the Summer Triangle visible at 3 am.

Are we talking ...'bikini line'?

[Wowbagger]

2/3 of the Summer Triangle visible at 3 am.

Are we talking ...'bikini line'?

Is that where you Hang Out your Washing?

[T42]

2/3 of the Summer Triangle visible at 3 am.

Are we talking ...'bikini line'?

Ah now that's a thought.

No.

But the line "two rubber bands on an egg" comes to mind.

[Jurek]

Magnolia giving it large on the way to my Mum's yesterday.

[rafletcher]

The first sfternoon cup of tea in the garden today, watching the bees on the pulmonaria.

[CrazyEnglishTriathlete]

Chiffchaffs singing. 

[woollypigs]

Nearly stepped on a frog. Still not hear yet, mind, cause I haven't seen roller blades or heard the ice cream van yet

[Cudzoziemiec]

Yesterday, a song thrush gathering nesting materials. Also a clump of frog spawn in a pond.

[orienteer]

Robin building a nest in an evergreen shrub round the garage side door.

[Wowbagger]

Chiffchaffs chiffchaffing this morning

[JellyLegs]

A pair of Blue tits and a pair of great tits both checking out the same nest box on the fence outside the kitchen window plus a pair of something checking out the nest box on the woodshed at the bottom of the garden. It is too far away for me to even hazard a guess at identifying them from my viewpoint though that box is designed with a slightly larger diameter entrance hole to attract sparrows etc.  Probably blue tits then!

[Wowbagger]

It’s dark. A blackbird is singing.

[Kim]

First ice cream van of the year just chimed.

[Cudzoziemiec]

First ice cream van of the year just chimed.

Tardy. Haven't the students been back about two and a half months by now.

[phantasmagoriana]

First ice cream van of the year just chimed.

You mean you don't get them year-round?

[Kim]

No, they're definitely seasonal.  But not in a term time way, which would make sense.

[cycleman]

First ice cream van here this afternoon.  I indulged 😋

[Mrs Pingu]

A bumblebee

[hellymedic]

No, they're definitely seasonal.  But not in a term time way, which would make sense.

We had the 'Yankee Doodle' van pass yesterday.
There seem to have been few vans this ear.

We usually get three of four distinct chimes from February half-term to Autumn half-term.

[Cudzoziemiec]

This morning I hung the washing on the line, more symbolically than in anticipation of dryness. But there shall be freshness!

[Wowbagger]

Our 17-year-old solar panel is still heating the water tank very acceptably. Yesterday afternoon's sun was sufficient that the water temperature was more than I could stand when I showered in it later. I just checked: 47.8°C in the top of the tank, 44.6°C in the middle. Not bad at all for half-way through March!

[SteveC]

My watch told me there is twelve hours and two minutes between sunrise and sunset today.

[Snakehips]

Last night we didn't have the CH on!  Today I cycled in shorts for the first time this year.

[Cudzoziemiec]

This morning I hung the washing on the line, more symbolically than in anticipation of dryness. But there shall be freshness!

And in fact only one item was not entirely dry.

[campagman]

A bumblebee

I saw an unusually large one in the greenhouse y'day, a queen? I was just leaving and nearly shut it in but couldn't, so guided it out safely. I also went out for my afternoon stroll wearing a T shirt.