The fine weather meant we were able to enjoy a number of beach walks as well as another trip to RHS Rosemoor. At Rosemoor the star attraction for us was the display of tulips which were taking over from the narcissi.
Back at the Granary we had our own more limited display of tulips which had partly been designed to hide the skips in the pub car park next door, where the reconstruction work is progressing at a pace.
With no bar in the village hall for the week whilst the landlady was on holiday, (prior to a busy few months preparing for the reopening of The Bell in July) we made our way to the next village, Buckland Brewer to meet up with friends for an early evening drink at the Coach and Horses.
Banks of primroses were brightening all the Devon lanes - ‘Whether carpeting a glade or peeping from a February hedgebank, it makes joy and thanksgiving in the hearts of humanity...’ Rev’d Keble Martin & Gordon T Fraser (1939) in Flora of Devon.
By the time we were leaving for the Midlands the bluebells were also coming into flower, encouraged by the warm sunshine.
Arriving home in pouring rain we have not yet had the chance to see how our own bluebells are doing!
