It’s the end of March and it is still winter. There were brief glimpses of spring – this weekend we even saw various neighbours get out their bicycles and pushbikes and footballs and hedge clippers. And yet today we woke up to several degrees below zero. As the day progressed we also got howling winds and snowstorms. Give me spring already!

This is what it was like outside, this afternoon:

For comparison, here’s what life was like almost exactly three years ago (give or take a few days) – except that was in London: