{"id":12894,"date":"2024-03-14T18:01:27","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T18:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=12894"},"modified":"2024-03-14T18:01:29","modified_gmt":"2024-03-14T18:01:29","slug":"spring-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=12894","title":{"rendered":"Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The weather\u2019s been a bit mixed lately, but today the sun is out and it\u2019s good hiking weather. A walk in the valley should be nice. There\u2019s a fire burning down there, the smoke doesn\u2019t rise because cold air is trapped on the valley floor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_4421-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"689\" src=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_4421-1024x689.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12893\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_4421-1024x689.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_4421-300x202.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_4421-768x517.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_4421-1536x1034.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_4421-2048x1379.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_4421-446x300.jpeg 446w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We had a good walk. The fire turned out to be lots of twigs and small branches that had blown down in the storm last weekend. The farmer has raked them all up ready for the livestock to return to the meadow. Talking of livestock, spring is on its way, and we did see cows and sheep in the barns along the path, though none of them are outside yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More signs of spring in our garden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_7991.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"705\" src=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_7991-1024x705.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12892\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_7991-1024x705.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_7991-300x207.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_7991-768x529.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_7991-1536x1057.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_7991-436x300.jpeg 436w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_7991.jpeg 1865w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tomorrow Val is off to the clinic in Bern to have her stitches removed, and hopefully that\u2019ll be the end of her health saga.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The weather\u2019s been a bit mixed lately, but today the sun is out and it\u2019s good hiking weather. 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