Another lovely day

Glory to God, we have had three truly lovely days in a row. Low-60's with sunshine. Spring has come to our part of England. I did not even wear a coat while walking the kids home from school!!!
We came home, made smoothies and sat out in our ill-kept back garden soaking the amazing rays.
We threw tennis balls for the cat to chase and examined the hole in our compost box (Pete thinks it was made by rats).
Since the garbage man (rubbish lorry) only comes every two weeks here, we have to recycle like maniacs and we also found two big compost boxes at the end of our garden, which we use as well.
Yesterday I threw a large chunk of hardened french bread in one and the next morning we watched as a huge raven carried into the middle of the garden and tore into it. We believe that we also have hedgehogs in our hedges (no surprise that the hedges are where they live) and have talked about setting out bowls of milk to entice them out onto the lawn. Pete (big Pete - guy who lives with us) is a photographer and wants to entice all manner of wildlife into our yard so he can get pictures. If he gets a picture of a hedgehog, I will pass it all around.

But now I have to go cook dinner and then be exiled to bridesmaid dress slavery. One more to alter and then I am done.......for about a week.
I hope you are all having a lovely day.

We are actually having a lovely day here. Low sixties, blue sky, sunshine. FINALLY!!!!! It is supposed to get up to 16 celsius this weekend which is something like 65 or so. Loving it.
The long days have started. It doesn't get dark until 8:30 - 9:00. The days will keep lengthening until it is still light until 10:00 - 10:30 at night and the sun comes up at 4:30. It is crazy and I like it. Bring on more light and more sun!!!

Snow and List

We woke up this morning to about 2-3 inches of snow. It is very pretty. Surprisingly, it does not snow very much in England; about as much as it snows in Alabama. And people react to it about like people in Alabama. Everything stops. School is out. Nice. It does snow quite frequently in Scotland. Northern Scotland is about like living in Minnesota - lots of white stuff from November to May. But now the sun is out, the roads are clear and we are going to church.

Everyone seems to put lists on their blogs. My brain seldom works in a list mode. But I was thinking of what makes me laugh here - that is what I would be thinking of.........
So here is my partial list, partial, because many things make me laugh - and it is not English exclusive:

1. My favorite most recent movie: King of California
2. My favorite English comedian at this time : Bill Bailey (check out his "love song" on youtube.)
3. My favorite American comedian at this time : Jim Gaffegan (sp?)
4. My favorite kiddie joke punch line : "thunderwear!"
5. I laugh every time Christopher does his lizard impression.
6. My Scottish friend, Lisa, says "Pantaloon's!!" every time she is annoyed.
7. I silently laugh when the English rant and rave about finding dog poo on the sidewalk or street, but say nothing when horses leave huge poos in the same places.
   
8. I think our postman is funny.
   
9. Nathan (our young office Brit) really thinks he is Jack Bauer from "24."
10. My husband still makes me laugh at really silly things.
    

Lambs

I do miss a warm Alabama spring. I miss dogwood trees, croaking frogs and incredibly loud crickets. I miss April days in the 70's. But, England does have it's charms. The fields are bright green and speckled with all kinds of flowers. The trees and hedgerows are budding. And then there are the lambs.......I love the lambs. Today, driving to work, I saw four little lambs frolicking by the fence. They are so cute and lamby. They really run around, chase each other and jump in the air. Their faces are either white, black or speckled. I like the black faced ones best. You can also hear their sweet high pitched bleating. Too cute.