Week 9

Something green in the woods...

The banks of the stream in the woods looking oddly green…what could it be…?

Hello! I hope you have had a good week and that you enjoyed our Big Beautiful February Poem yesterday. Shall we do it all again for March? I realise it’s only just begun but hey.

In this weekly post we all leave comments about something we have noticed this week that is particularly ‘this week’ ish - something we have seen, eaten, smelt, done or really whatever just made this week feel like this week in the year. The more personal and odd, the more likely they are to make it into the end-of-the-month poem.

Here’s mine:

Wild garlic!

Yes it’s here! What a joy. Such a beautiful and unignorable sign of the earth turning towards spring. It is still a light haze over the mud of the woods at the moment, but really within weeks - days? - it will be a luxuriant carpet. I didn’t gather any, because it took me by surprise, but next week I will return with Tupperware. I see wild garlic soda bread in my future.

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Housekeeping: this Sunday being the first Sunday of the month we will all be sharing our ‘usual spots’ - a spot we take a picture of once a month through the whole year to see how it changes - in our Sunday morning chat over on the chat part of the app. You need to download the substack app to find this, and then it is the speech bubble icon on the bottom right. So get your snaps taken now and join in on Sunday - it’s not too late to start.

But for now, over to you: what have you noticed this week? What has made it particularly this week ish? Everyone is welcome. Please leave your comments below, and then come back and chat with the other commenters.