These are a few of my favourite spring things

- Trees that explode overnight into bloom – mainly cherry trees with their tight bunches of gorgeous pink flowers, and another species of tree (no idea what they are) that are completely covered in tiny white blossom

- Drifts of swirling white petals that lift off into the air like minute snowflakes (from the aforementioned unknown trees with the white blossom) when there’s a sudden gust of wind

- Fresh light green leaves on the plants and trees which don’t have blossom to show off

- Green, green grass in the fields, looking so glossy and juicy that it makes me wish I could be a cow or a sheep, just so I could get my chompers around them

- Springy little lambs that gambol away from the moving cars on the road, even though they (the lambs and their maa-maas) are safely behind fences in the meadows

- Curious little lambs that nose their way to the fence to see who you are and what you might have for them – but only if you squat patiently and quietly near the fence for a while...

- Forsythia trees whose branches disappear completely under sunshiny, cheerful yellow blossom... or are they really leaves which start out yellow and turn green?

- Daffodils – golden yellow ones, cream ones, double-petalled ones, orange-centred ones – growing in clumps everywhere ... regimented in gardens, scattered by the roadside or bunched together in grassy roundabouts to make a sea of waving gold.