April showers bring May flowers is one old saying - one can spot the hawthorn flowering early this year in the hedgerows.
It’s been the earliest spring in 80 years this year, with flowers and insects appearing early - there was talk of wasps about. A temperature high of 26.6C recorded at Kew Gardens in the second week of April set a record.
Then a quick blast of more arctic air sent us scurrying indoors again.
There are already some predictions of a summer like 1976 coming our way this year.
Hard to believe when the windchill factor is minus 5C.
