Spring is on the way! Ok, maybe it's still a long way off, but the bulbs have just started appearing in the ground, and in Regents Park at the weekend we saw some beautiful sunny yellow blooms recently emerged from the frozen ground to sing the first notes of the song of spring. And not a day too soon. Winter depresses me every year. Grey, cold, dark, did I mention the coldness, darkness and horrible lack of sunlight?

Miserable. Just miserable.

But scatter around a few bulbs poking their heads up and my heart lifts a little as I sense the change of the seasons.

We had a lovely time wheeling Sophs through the park on her lovely pink tricycle. We showed her the two black swans resident in one of the ponds (and I found the number of people taking their photo and going ape over them quite amusing - but then again they only get white swans over here so I guess it's not too surprising!)

Sophs is having another growth spurt -the jeans that fit her perfectly 3 weeks ago now hover above her ankles! Kids will do that, I guess. She's chattering and singing away more and more each day, and certainly knows her own mind. Can't think where she gets her stubbornness from.