Have I missed anything?
Rather than curling up in a cave and ignoring the world for the last few months, I have been spending my time touting my book on the Harper Collins website 'Authonomy', with some measure of success (as in, people like it), but it is addictive and now I realise there is a whole other world out there with which I should attempt to re-engage.
So - nature notes. The most fantastic blossom and cuddly catkins abound, daffodils and primroses grace grassy banks everywhere and suddenly the countryside is awesome in its promise. Did you know also that moorhens climb trees? We observed one literally run up a weeping willow branch which touched the ground, and there it perched on one of the branches. Delightful little feathered critters with big feet, but not ones you expect to see aloft somehow.
I still drive to work past watercress beds every morning and for the past week, a pair of adult swans have taken up residence. It is a most glorious sight to behold their amazing white plumage and contrasting black legs set against a background of watercress green. A Kodak moment, except I don't own a camera.
More if it occurs to me. Meanwhile enjoy, enjoy.