I saw my first freezing droplets of fog for the year falling yesterday - it reminded me of the beginnings of the big freeze in 1962/63.
(only joking). Things are earlier than usual this year so much so that the seasons seem to merge more into each other at the present but I can remember many times in my lifetime when this has occurred but nature has always redressed the balance in subsequent months and years.
I am just looking out the front window at a species rose with one flower (this particular one flowers early summer) and a pink in full bloom! I don't think it's anything to do with global warming or an early spring but last years continual deluge . I grow Cymbidium orchids (only a few now as the heating bill became astronomical) and this is the first time in 20 odd years I have not had a flower, purely through the lack of sun last year. However there will be other years.
Thats why I would never go and live abroad. We live on probably the most beautiful group of isles in the world and have such a varied climate which is why we get so many immigrants be they animal, vegetable or mineral
Everything and everyone wants to come here!
So bring on sun, rain, snow, hail, tornado or heatwave I am quite happy in my beloved British Isles with all its beauty.
Happy days!
Colin