I didn't want to stop walking when I took Dog out this morning. It is so beautiful. And quiet. The island celebrates half-term a week after the rest of the mainland, for some unknown reason, so everyone appears to have gone away. We have had one of the hardest frosts in memory here - I am now regretting my cavalier attitude to protecting tender plants. But I love the crystals.
On the downs, I took a photo of some gorse that is already in bloom. This always reminds me of my childhood, when I used to take myself and a book to a hill covered in gorse, and lie in a sheltered hollow reading for hours. Back then, I seem to remember that gorse smelled like coconut when the sun was out. But I can't seem to smell anything these days, so perhaps I was simply reading "Biggles in the South Sea" at the time.
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The schools might be only having a Bank holiday weekend at Easter, and having the "Easter" holidays a week or so later.