Day 3
Today it actually looks like Spring outside. Puffy white clouds and a bit of sunshine. Although still a bit damp. The daffodils are out on the verges in the area, but not yet in the garden. The garden daffodils are always a bit late flowering. So there's quite a gap between the snowdrops and daffodils here as the rabbits ate all the crocus bulbs! So I gave up with crocuses. The few daffodils are safe though, as are the bluebells, which spread every year. The bluebells won't be out till late April/May, but the green leaves have started appearing already.
One lone flower in the back garden! And some dwarf narcissi not yet in flower. I think the flower/bulb might be a white crocus actually as it doesn't look like a snowdrop and the snowdrops in the front have all finished now. Horticulturists welcome to identify!
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A clump of daffodils in the grass in the front, not yet flowered - and the dark green clumps are bluebell leaves.
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Bluebell leaves
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It's always tricky trying to do a first cut of the front lawn before it gets too long as the lawn is full of bluebells, which spread each year. So either you have to do a first cut, weaving round the leaves - which is tricky. Or, as usually happens, that doesn't get done in time and it's a case of waiting till the bluebells have finished some time in May, by which time the grass is very tall! The grass doesn't actually look like it needs cutting at the moment so it will probably get left till May now.
And here's a video of Raffy. This is how he goes back to his cage after his free roam. If I can easily see him he happily walks into a tube if it's offered. If I can't see him I have to call his name a few times and eventually he appears and walks into a tube
On this occasion he was being cheeky. He normally just climbs out of the tube and into his cage. But he kept turning round in the tube, wanting to come out again
. Sometimes he does this, but this time he did it more than usual. Maybe it was because he was being filmed.
He is so beautiful. I really love his colouring. 
