May 21st and its still cool with showers but summer must be just around the corner? Everything is growing like there is no tomorrow and the birds are in overdrive building nests and feeding the first of the young. Its a wonderful time of year here in the countryside with everything bursting into like its makes you forget about the dreaded virus problems. 

However things are starting to open up, on the 19th restaurants and cafes could open outside terraces so we went into town to the Paddock cafe and enjoyed cool beers plus burger and chips - absolutely marvellous.

Its amazing how we can appreciate the simple things after months of lock down.