Nature Blog by Jenny Bourne

After what felt like weeks of dull, overcast skies it eventually brightened up and some days it’s been almost like early spring! On Tuesday the milder temperatures brought out honeybees to my snowdrops and hellebores; one of my favourite varieties is Nothing Special, reliably one of the first to flower.

Another early morning of hard frost with a lemon gold sun rising over the urban horizon got me out, well wrapped up and insulated against the cold to take more ‘frosty plots’ photos.

Woke up on the morning of 6 Jan – Twelfth Night, Epiphany – to a heavy frost, clear skies and a bright early sun rising over…

So much rain over the past week or so and now it’s unseasonably mild – 16o today and 17o forecast for tomorrow’s New Year’s Eve celebrations, in flip flops and shorts…?

A very sweet starring appearance this afternoon of these two outside St John’s Church. ‘Little Donkey’ and all those childhood Christmas songs