Crocuses and first glimmers of Spring – The Yorkshire Post says
Take the yellow petals shimmering in the sun’s reflection at Kirkstall Abbey in Leeds – their flowering would barely flicker with passers-by in normal times.
Now their presence is a small source of optimism as families, fatigued by nearly a year of lockdowns and Covid restrictions, look forward to longer – and warmer – days after in the wake of one of the most interminable, and depressing, winters of living memory.
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Hide AdAnd while this week’s weather looks set to blanket flowers in snow, the splash of colour in parks and gardens offers a ray of hope that better times lie ahead thanks to the gradual changing of the seasons, new-found awareness of the environment, as evidenced by the number of locked down Britons taking part in the Big Garden Birdwatch, and the successful rolling out of the Covid vaccine.
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