In
October, I wanted to make an appointment to have my winter tyres
fitted. But the weather was nice and the schedule busy, so I decided to
postpone until November. Then out
of nowhere it was December, and I realised I was still driving around
on my summer tyres. They were rather new so there was a lot of profile
on them and well, December is an expensive month and the weather was still very forgiving, so I decided I could
sit it out a bit longer. But January came and
went, February came and went and surprise-surprise: winter never showed
up! There were two days where I had to de-ice the windshield, but that
was pretty much it. No snow, drizzle, sleet, mud, torrential rain or
anything!
It
might still happen of course. Both March and April are notorious for
their capriciousness, but I can't help but notice the days are
lengthening nicely and that the spring
flowers are popping up everywhere: daffodils, crocusses and snow drops (my
favorite!) are bursting out of the ground and even the tulips are
poking their leaves through the soil. The predictions for this weekend
and all of next week are excellent, so I'm hoping
that this year we'll just skip winter entirely and move straight on to
spring. After all, Mother Nature owes us, for all the years where spring
went straight on into fall without a decent summer.
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