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 You can tell by the picture that the snow has gone.
Also, this weekend was quite warm, the sun shone and the sky was blue, there is a fresh watered greenery to the grass as it shakes off the layer of snow and drinks what remains. The river seems to be carrying a snowy sparkle to it too as most of the melt water washes in and gets carried away to the sea.

Everything has a twinkle of newness today and for the first time the village had a few cars parked with people stopping to eat picnics on the village green.
Unlike the first bird of spring, the first bee, the first bud we watch out for the first bread packet. The tell tale wrapper of bread that shows that tourists have been here eating sandwiches, admiring how wonderful and clean the place is, wishing that they lived in a place as nice as this and then leaving their crap to make our village green look as welcoming as Sunderland city

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I like people coming here, it's nice to see lots of people in the village and having them wander round and look through your living room window for a nose.
I like that people come in their cars just to sit for a few minutes and listen to the sound of nothing going on and then head back to a place of street lights and sirens with a memory of the serenity of silence in their minds.
I'm quite bad, so I also like the look of jealousy when you come out of the door and they realise that there are some people lucky enough to live in this beautiful place and I like it even more when they take their bread wrappers away with them.

As mentioned in the last blog, I have been away for a week in Milton Keynes, the NEW city of wonder designed by modern people for the modern lifestyle and providing everything anyone could need. Whatever you could want by way of food, shopping entertainment, it was all in the wonder that is Milton Keynes.

We managed to go out for valentines night

 and we had a lovely time in a place of concrete valleys, well lit streets, strange smells like there was always something too hot or melting and lots plastic blowing around our feet.
It was ok for a visit, but I can't understand why anyone would want to live there. I know that the designers of Milton Keynes have heard of tree's as there are lots of them and they are in nice straight rows down every street and at every side of every street and all the buildings look the same and it is gray and lifeless and has no soul at all.

I'm happy to be out in the Arse End of Nowhere, and I think the dogs like a place where they can jump too.

I'm not sure if the guy that made these has ever seen a cow!