winter is over - that's official!

admittedly these pics arrived a couple of days ago but really not that long and at a time when us londoners started sporting bare legs and t-shirts already as the temperature reached 16 degrees last weekend (sorry - i was 'sporting' nothing - i'm still dragging myself around in what is warm and loose and comfy, but my daughter is and certainly my students!). so seeing dear marlis and anke ice skating on what i assume is the aasee (a name that endlessly entertained us as children) brings a shiver down my spine as i really don't want to hear of cold any longer. let's hope we soon get a springy pic from their early blossoming trees - our plum tree outside the house is if full gear, in fact the whole of our street is in bloom!