Some Speedwell to get this week off to a good start. #TheSmallThings #SpreadingJoy

The Hazel wood is white with Wild Garlic (and there are a few Bluebells dotted in amongst them, too). #TheSmallThings #SpreadingJoy

A perfect puffball to usher in the weekend. If you were going to blow on it, what wishes would you send into the breeze? #TheSmallThings #SpreadingJoy

I have managed to visit Ikea and leave having only purchased the two things I went for. In celebration of that momentous achievement I bring a bright and beautiful Yellow Archangel (otherwise known as Deadnettle) for #TheSmallThings #SpreadingJoy this fine Friday.

The celandines are thinking about opening. #TheSmallThings #SpreadingJoy

Not-my-cat having a little sit in the rather overgrown rose beds. #TheSmallThings #SpreadingJoy

Since it’s so dark here it feels like dusk I’m bringing some bright and cheerful forsythia to the timeline to make it all seem a little better. #TheSmallThings #SpreadingJoy

Cuckoo flowers for Monday! #TheSmallThings #SpreadingJoy

A teeny tiny video from the bluebell filled woods, taken just after sunrise. #TheSmallThings #SpreadingJoy

I bring you the view from my face and a lamb’s tail, spied through a hedge, this wonderfully sunny Saturday! #TheSmallThings #SpreadingJoy

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I found a baby dragon hiding in the back of a cupboard! #TheSmallThings #SpreadingJoy

Diet Coke gifts are always accepted in the athletic training room fridge. Appreciate that Gos. #dietcoke #TheSmallThings

The last of the blossom. #TheSmallThings #SpreadingJoy

The berries in the variegated laurel “persisting into spring” (as my gardening book says). #TheSmallThings #SpreadingJoy

And this is what a flowering redcurrant looks like when you let it grow from bush-sized to tree-sized! #TheSmallThings #SpreadingJoy

Since the weather is being a little less than spring-like across most of the UK, have some vivid Oregon grape flowers to brighten the day. #TheSmallThings #SpreadingJoy

Today I #crocheted a small thing. A hat - because of course I’d make a hat just before we get to the warm weather when I will not need to wear it - using cable stitching to make the pattern. I am quite pleased with it! #TheSmallThings #SpreadingJoy

More fighting with the brambles today, whilst admiring the blooming quince. #TheSmallThings #SpreadingJoy

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Glorious sunshine for the start of this year’s Sisyphean battle with the brambles. The Robin has been most curious about my work and the Wrens have been shouting from the shrubbery (which I will not disturb). And the Darwin’s Barberry is out. #TheSmallThings #SpreadingJoy