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Spring must be here, frogs have come back to the pond, and started kapertaling, about a pint of frog spawn so far.

Retlaw.

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Well, that's a new word I've learnt today .. :eek:

Used to love getting frog spawn as a kid, and watching them develop into tadpoles, then the little legs growing. Aaaaah.

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spring is definately here .. i got flowers in my garden!!!:D:D:D

just took these all of a couple of minutes ago and saw my first wasp of the year ..

looks like im going to have start tidying the garden up!!! :D:D:D

and my next door neighbours cat enjoying the sunshine!!! :D:D:D

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Yes, spring has most definitely sprung.......all my seedling are poking their little heads out from the seed tray....

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springs here too

http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/thumb_3...8153QBWpZu.jpg

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Hahahahaha

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Ladies should remember not to swim in open water, until after the spawning season has ended, unless wearing a very snug swimming costume.

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And flocks of Canada Geese are heading north:theband:

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Katex - isn't Retlaw's "kapertaling" an old Lancashire word from the verb "caper"? I remember my mother using it when I used to dash about - but she pronounced it with the emphasis on "pert".

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Eurgh, never the frog spawn stuff, but bring on the Spring!:D

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Thanks for the pics Jen, I so miss England in the spring xx

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Yeah, Stanley Cup playoffs, and baseball:theband:

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Thanks Ossylass .. could be .... thought was a great word for t'other though ... :D

Photo I took down Mitton last week:

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Noticed my neighbour's cat was doing just this today Shill ... sat on my bench lapping up the new warmth that Spring brings.
The flowers are awakening from their Winter sleep, had a column of midges today dancing merrily around each other.
Birds are beginning to collect small fingers of branches that have escaped from their mother tree and golden sunbeams are floating through my patio window shining their magic on ....









the blooming dust !!! :(

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As Thos. Kennedy used to say:

Spring has sprung, the grass is riz,
I wonder where the birdies is.
The bird is on the wing,
But that's absurd;
The wing is on the bird.

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depends yerself .. if they start singing at 4am like they did this morning .. then they may just not be around again to see the sun coming up ..

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The trees around my place show no signs of spring yet :(

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As every knows - The first day of Spring is 20/3/ 10. just in time to wake Paddy up after the 17th.

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8c this afternoon .... bbq weather; most of my neighbours were out burning meat on the grill .... general concensus was "nice day, eh" ...

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The little sods were at it at 11pm last night in Rishton but it serves me right for feeding them all every day.

We've just started the gardening round in earnest and I think we're due a collossal ladybird infestation this year as we've noticed them as early as January.

That's very good news for the birds though, plenty of extra food!

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17 deg today, Acacia in full bloom as is the Camelia (expected), bulbs flowering, hazel catkins, new shoots evrywhere and of course the weeds are trying to get a head start on everything else. Left the uoutside light on late last nigh - when i went to turn it off at about 2230 there were birds at the feeders and a mouse scavenging under the feeders. - Spring is here for me.

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About 8c today, with lots of sunshine ... more flights of geese heading north ... a couple of dozen squirrels in my yard .... and the coons out in force at night ... snowdrops out, tulips pushing up .... and if it were not for the snow in the long range forecast, I would say spring is here.

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Our UK winter seems to have been as long and almost as cold/snowy as yours this time, but maybe we have suffered more hardship because our municiple services didn't cope like yours.

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In general, Canada seems to have had one of the warmest, shortest winters on record ... and there are lots of negatives on this one ... heard on the news yesterday that the govt. of Manitoba has closed the winter roads heading to their northern communties ... this is about a month earlier than usual. The muskeg is thawing ... trucks are stranded in the mud ... truckers are being airlifted out from their abandoned vehicles, and northern communities (all First Nations) are running short of supplies ... those living in the Red River valley are bracing for the floods both in southern Manitoba and in North Dakota ...

But I do agree that we are better prepared for winter weather than most.

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Ooops ... "muskeg" ... well anyone interested has Google ... of course, for those among you who speak Algonquian, it shouldn't be a problem:D