Another reason I know that spring is here, apart from the sunshine and blue skies, is that I’m seeing butterflies. We had a comma (Polygonia c-album) resting on the garden wall yesterday and today I spotted something flit past me at the front (too fast to identify further than ‘butterfly’) and a yellow one, probably a brimstone (Gonepteryx rhamni) in the back garden.

The only downside is that it means it probably won’t be too long before pretty little things like the cabbage white (often Pieris brassicae or Pieris rapae round here) start laying the eggs which develop into voracious caterpillars … and I haven’t even got my brassicas planted yet!