simple pleasures

Last post 20-09-2009 4:12 PM by miranda. 4 replies.

• 24/03/2009 11:08 AM
  loulou Location: glasgow Joined on: 22 Oct 2008 Posts: 25	Reply | Contact Just wanted to say how much I love this time of year - stepping outside I can almost sense the anitcipation in the air!  Everything is beginning to emerge - but ever so slowly it seems - and soon it will be off at a great speed. After two such dismal months, what a pleasure.... Lou

• 24/03/2009 01:36 PM	In reply to
  sue1002 Location: Ipswich, Suffolk Joined on: 06 Sep 2005 Posts: 9,474	Reply | Contact  I love this time of year too loulou, spring bulbs are in flower, various shrubs are beginning to form flower buds, the seed sowing is well under way, and my greenhouse is almost full to bursting with young seedlings and over-wintered plants. sue1002

• 29/04/2009 03:40 PM	In reply to
  mcrandi Location: Joined on: 29 Apr 2009 Posts: 6	Reply | Contact  its always great when your favourite season is around, enjoy

• 20/09/2009 03:07 PM

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  Arrem Location: Staffordshire. UK Joined on: 12 Jul 2009 Posts: 243

  Reply | Contact  I'm replying in this thread because simple pleasures really sums it up nicely.  I'm sat here tapping away at the keyboard, listening to an Elton John CD and occasionally gazing out of the window, watching the antics of the local birdlife, mainly Sparrows arguing in the hedgerow.  Today they have been joined by a gang of ChiffChaffs searching out all the hidey holes for insects. Then something a bit larger caught my attention, a Sparrow Hawk had just landed on the fence post and was scrutinising the hedge very closely, obviously I was not the only one watching the hedgerow. I keep my camera on my desk by my side but by the time I realised what I was watching and had grabbed the camera and turned it on the Sparrow Hawk flew off. Ah well, Simple Pleasures eh?  There is no such thing as useless - you can always be a bad example.

• 20/09/2009 04:12 PM	In reply to
  miranda Location: Oxfordshire Joined on: 17 Nov 2004 Posts: 4,072	Reply | Contact They always seem to fly off as soon as you pick up the camera, Arrem.  A simple pleasure for me at the moment is being woken up by the robin. There is a huge magnolia close to our bedroom window and the robin perches in it to sing at dawn. Robin song is one of the sweetest sounds I know of and it's a lovely way to wake up.