Bringing spring into the house has banished the winter blues. It started with a couple of anemones, then narcissi, on to cherry blossom and now there's some full size daffodils from a dark corner of the garden. I did leave plenty for the wildlife too. 
 C has been on frogspawn watch and when he told me there was (finally) a definite lump of it in the pond I was elated! Excellent news. I'm hoping for more though. 

Good news too about the nests; a relatively sure sighting of blue tits attending the most popular nest box. This one is on a tree that doesn't sway, faces a good direction and has a clear flight path in to the box. It's been used each year. 

I ordered bulbs, tubers, plants and seeds over winter. With anything in a plastic bag I get worried it will suffer if left there for long. I potted up dahlia tubers last weekend. They really are ugly. Some in massive sausagey bunches. Others, like testicles. 

Finding whatever possible to liven up the mantlepiece. If the deer hasn't eaten the grape hyacinths they should be coming in the next few weeks. 
The growing season has kicked off chez Sticks; the propagator has been working for weeks now to start off our delicate and fussy seeds like chillis, tomatoes, celeriac, aubergine, celeriac and sweet peppers.