Bang! Spring!

Do not click on the trees in the dark photos. They are SERIOUSLY noisy! The others have dodgy focus. I am not sure my phone's camera is working that well...




One of the things that always shocks me so far is the sudden change from winter to summer and from summer to winter.

Last week it was cold and wet. Mainly wet. But cold too.

Then on Thursday the sun came out and all of a sudden the trees are budding, the horse chestnuts are flowering and people are strutting round in shorts and stuff. We seem to go from dismal, grey winter to full-on spring in no time at all.

Same thing happens in November. One day you're having a barbecue. Next day you're scraping thick ice off the car.

I thought about this long and hard this evening while walking the 17 yards from the student centre to the tram stop, and I think it's because of the sun.

The sun is very hot and when it comes out it really comes out very, very hot. It feels very good but you'd better keep covered up or it'll cook you like a chicken!

Comments

Anonymous said…
Reminds me of the well-known but oft forgotten rhyme/doggerel:-

Spring has sprung, the grass has riss,
I wonder where the birdies is.
The bird is on the wing - but that's absurd!
The wing is on the bird.

Weeell, at least it rhymes.
11:19 pm
Alan said…
Indeed it does, Kenneth.

Indeed it does.
10:56 am
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