May 8, 2013
Well, not quite summer but after a long winter, the 20°+ has
felt just like that. And we’ve had a ten day stretch of it! It’s a welcome
break after winter dragged its heels to the last week of April. In fact, in
four months the temperature barely changed, except for the odd day here and
there.
On a gorgeous 8° day (?!) I unzipped, yes, unzipped my coat and pumped my old man’s ‘Summer of Love’ album on my ipod.
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| From winter flowers to... |
“You came at a good time,” everyone joked on our January
arrival. I still think we did. I’d much rather arrive in winter and see the
progression into summer than witness the reverse. I loved winter– the snow, the
slush, the ice. (Strangely enough I was colder living in Manchester. Even an Australian
Winter left me wondering,
