After an absence of 3 months the rain returned last weekend. Most of the country is in drought and a significant percentage in ‘severe drought’ despite the brief rainfall at the weekend it looks like we’ll be having a summer with water shortages and high fire risk. Today we’ve returned to cerulean blue sky, really I should not complain too hard! What is it about the weather, we all end up like Goldilocks, it’s always ‘too hot, too cold’ and never ‘just right’. But, Spring has certainly sprung. From the mimosa in full bloom in the woods, causing people with allergies to cough and splutter to the killer caterpillars..(processional pine caterpillars) and the butterflies dancing around the garden. Lord has already cut his face searching for lizards in the bushes, a sure sign that things are waking up in the garden! Spring means we wake up the garden, the plants are starting to grow again and Peter’s been digging in our home made compost (where the mice have been