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[ellarien]

It turns out that the big Tesco is in fact within walkable distance -- about two miles, probably. I set out this afternoon intending to see how far I could get by following the main road town-wards for half an hour; the answer turned out to be a corner about five minutes from said Tesco. I wouldn't want to walk back with a week's groceries, but with the few things I got it was doable -- and would even have been pleasant, along the river and through the park, if it hadn't turned cold and grey and windy again by then -- earlier it had been sunny, if chill, and the woods were full of colour.

There are buds on the rhododendrons by the lake, and catkins here and there, and odd little bits of flowering shrub. Yesterday, going the other way, I saw snowdrops not quite open.