Spring is just around the corner.

Although we are continually being lashed by gale force winds from the never ending low depressions coming in from the Atlantic, hitting of course the British Isles first causing a lot of damage there also in France & Spain, one can’t deny it, spring is just around the corner. Every were one looks things are bursting into life there is a light touch of green on most plants and bushes.

The weather situation being unpredictable at times, I have still managed (between showers) to do some work in the garden, in fact I even managed to mow the lawn and then Thatch it (that word I didn’t know, in German it is Vertikutieren) There are so many jobs to be done in the garden before the fine weather sets in ( if it ever does) but I extremely enjoy working in the garden so it raises no problems for me.

I finely posted the bloody Income Tax return on Wednesday. My wife and I had to go through the whole lot again because we had missed something out in the first attempt, we still don’t know if we have filled the forms in correctly! But who the hell cares! If they are incorrect we will be sure to hear from the Inland Revenue people in no time.

It is my brother’s birthday today. I have sent him an e-mail congratulating him and wishing him all the best. He will be 55 on the day, I wish him most of all less stress situations in his life and the most important thing of all, good health.

The photo that I have added is one of the rare photos that I posses of my brother and me together, taken 1983 while on holiday in New Zealand. The other photo is taken of the front garden of a house a few streets away. When I saw it that’s when I thought spring is just around the corner.

Take care out there were ever you are. Tschüss.