It may be a grey day, but the signs of spring, little more than a week away, are more and more numerous – primroses, buds swelling, the first leaves on the hawthorn. I’d say that these are quiet lanes, especially so on a Sunday morning, but it’s not quiet. There’s no traffic noise, nor any annoying aeroplanes, but (I’m not complaining) sheep and cows are making a commotion, the small birds are singing merrily (there’s a lark overhead), and the canada geese are honking on the pools and the wing.

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