spring is on its way

Beautiful bright blue skies today, around 60F. Matt arrived back from snowboarding in les arcs early this morning, without injury! Spent most of the rest of the daylight hours in the garden, amongst other things planting the potatoes i'd been chitting for the past few weeks, jersey, maris bard and charlotte. Apart from watering occasionally and earthing up over the top of them there is not much more to do.
Ali says she has seen the blue tits coming out of the bird box we put up in the winter so fingers crossed, they will nest there this spring/summer. Something has been burrowing into the compost again, i don't know what. The compost has produced some excellent stuff this year, much of which has been put on the garden over the winter. Partly cos of the warmth the lawn also had its first cut!
I hope we are luckier this year with the other vegetable seeds we plant, the plot in the garden is not in the best of places and i'm negotiating with Ali, not very successfully at the moment, for part of one of her prized beds!
Roll on the clocks going forward, apparently they did in california last night, Sarah phoned and for a couple of weeks they are only seven hours behind us.