Warm Easter wishes

It's that wonderful time of year when we celebrate new life and this year, as Easter is so late, we seem to have been very lucky with the weather here in the UK.
Blossom has bloomed everywhere and there has been real warmth in the sun. It has reached the dizzy heights of 26oc in the afternoons for the last week and it feels like I am on holiday abroad. I finished work yesterday and I am now off for 2 whole weeks. The forecast is that this glorious weather will last all the way through the bank holiday weekend.

My garden has been bursting into flower, I can almost hear my plants growing and the warmth has made everything grow so quickly.

Just  look at my azalea which came into flower this week. It has a beautiful fragrance too.

And the fresh new leaves on my acer ............






and on my hosta (below)

I would  like to take this opportunity to say a big thank you to my blogger friend Teje. She had a recent giveaway to celebrate writing her 100th post and I was the lucky winner. Just look what arrived in the post.

She makes beautiful quilts and this is a notebook cover. Please take a look at her blog and say hello. She lives on the sunny island of Crete and is such a creative and kind person.

Thank you Teje (and Nero)











Easter also just has to mean an excuse for lots of this....

and this......

And your children just never get too old for these do they.....

there are lots of goodies inside and every year I still have to put in one of these little cheerful friends.

I have also been making some cards..

Wishing everyone a peaceful, chocoate filled, hopefully sunny, Easter break. I hope to be having lots of garden time and lots of cups of tea outside. I shall be continuing to tidy up my garden. Billy will no doubt be helping....?

Hmmm not sure if that is called helping or sleeping!

It's been just so extraordinarily hot this afternoon that even Billy had to seek shade under my deck chair. It reached 29oc in the sun on my patio!  I  hope the sun is shining on you all too and if not I will blow some of ours your way. I would also like to dedicate this little Easter poem I found, to all of you, my great blogging friends.

Easter needs a garden

Where its peace and joy may grow,

Like daffodils that brightly bloom

Above the melting snow.

So find a little time each day

That you can set apart,

To cultivate some flowers

In the garden of your heart.

And then, throughout the busy days

Your happy heart will sing,

And to the people that you meet

You’ll be a breath of spring

(Anon)

Have a very Happy Easter Everyone, warm wishes to you all.

Bye for now,

Jane x