I see it has been a week since my last entry. The weather has been cold, grey and wet- not very motivating for a diary about the outdoors. Nonetheless I did my first session of the year at the music school today; these funguses have erupted since I was last there. Spring bulbs are starting to poke through, Primroses are just coming into bud, I even saw a bumblebee making its way around the flowers of a Mahonia. So there's hope...