This long winter

Here in Aspatria we don't get a lot of snow. Certainly nothing like the amounts we used to get in Gloucestershire. But Aspatria like the rest of the country seems to have been in the grips of winter for a long time. This week, however, I spotted crocus flowers in the lawn (I'd planted them the year before we went down to Buckinghamshire and had thought that they'd been killed off while we were away - I didn't notice them last year) and, in spite of the snow that fell on Tuesday we've seen a lot of the sun this week. Spring is nearly here but winter has not gone, yet.