Spring?

While it still feels cold to we thin-skinned, fresh-off-the-boat immigrants, today's 10 degrees Celsius was positively balmy for this time of the year.
This picture is of a bush in our back garden bursting into flower apparently in the mistaken belief that spring has sprung. Hayfever season is likely to start tomorrow. Migratory birds who should be forming into V-shapes and heading for Tenerife are instead rolling out their beach towels and sipping pina coladas next to the North Sea - toasting George Bush and John Howard's refusal to sign Kyoto for saving them a long return flight.