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róisín_dubh

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11. Thanks for the hopeful sign of spring

Reply to multigraincracker (Original post)

Sun Feb 15, 2026, 10:28 PM

Sunday

It has rained somewhere in the UK every day since the start of the new year. I’ve seen the sun twice in a month.
But as I lay here typing this I can hear the oystercatchers on the river below my flat, which is another sign spring is coming.

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