The scent of spring: The first bees are bumbling among sprays of blossom like fireworks…

Thank goodness that’s over! So long, wettest-February-on-record; good riddance, miserable winter. For the first time in ages, the forecast in some parts of Britain is predicting sun for several days. The bright months are back again, and how welcome they are. As David Hockney recently put it, in a caption of a painting of butter-golden … Read more