Emergency Sanity blogging

Before I go into London. I just want to record that spring has arrived in the countryside. I was struggling with a filthy cold for most of the weekend, and turned down an invitiation to go on the Sunday programme because of it, but managed a short walk around the village of Henham in the afternoon, in the course of which I saw two blackbirds mating, three greenfinches (which are, confusingly, yellow), a pair of jays, a dunnock, some glorious catkin buds, and two nesting moorhens. I took pictures of all of these with the lovely telephoto lens my mother gave me for my birthday, but, snot-stupid, failed to notice that there was no card in the camera at the time. I did manage some pictures of the 13th century church with a spare memory card inserted, which I will put up on Flickr later.