Easter Sunday was a wash-out so our Easter Lamb was cooked and eaten at #48 and we didn’t even get back to Titania’s Bower to hunt for the ‘Easter Eggs’ [aka bottles of wine and beer].

Monday [April 21] was glorious though so we went up to the woods to retrieve the bottles as best we could and knock up sausage and onions in french bread for lunch.  Not all the bottles made it back full.

The bluebells were at their best :

and the Early Purple Orchids, Orchis mascula [I cannot see how one can have Orchis femina!], down by Eastern Stream were putting on a lovely show.  The race that we have starts quite dark when in bud :

and lightens up as it matures :