What happened to spring?

These last few weeks have felt like summer to me. We seem to have almost bypassed spring altogether! Come to think of it, it wasn't a particularly bad winter, with little snow and onyl a few memorable car scraping frost days! The trouble with twelve hour shifts is that you end up scraping the car before and after work - real pain in the ass!

Anyway, there's all this nonesense about global warming circulating everywhere, campaigns spouting from every politicians lips as we near the local elections and an ever increasing drive to be greener, so maybe we could equate the two? Warmer climate and global change...? Yet there still seem to be folk who deny anything is changing, or if it is, that it's simply a natural cycle of events.

Personally, as you all know by now, I'm doing what I can, though probably not nearly enough to reduce our carbon footprint but you've got to consider, if the majority aren't, is it really worth it? The Western world are the worst polluters and yet several major nations *cough USA cough* are simply not buying into the need to drastically cut emissions, if we believe the media reports... Or the facts!

So, is there an upside? Well, not for the third world who'll see diminishing crops, baking temperatures drying up water supplies and generally more starvation and ill health but surely that's balanced by the European heatwaves that'll give us all a nice tan for many more months a year... And so what if we loose a little coastline to sea errosion... I live in the midlands anyway!

...And of course, early spring means early blooms! Here're a few shots I took a couple of weekends ago - pretty pretty!







So, without global warming and a looming humanitarian catastrophe, I'd never have been able to get these wonderfull pictures in early April!! Two big thumbs up to carbon emmissions, landfills and an increase in road traffic! Jxx