Last week saw the arrival of the spring equinox in the Northern Hemisphere. The UK enjoyed an unseasonably warm day, including Wales’ warmest spring equinox on record, as the early impacts of the coming climate chaos continue to make themselves felt.

Naturally, here at The Secret Acre, we took the opportunity for a summer BBQ. Our earliest on record, after none at all in last year’s continuously unseasonable cold and wet.

We ended up enjoying three seasons in one day! A summer BBQ on the warmest spring equinox, having dug up the last of the winter leaks, to char on the BBQ coals, and eat with an excellent romesco sauce.

Whatever the vagaries of the weather to come, the official arrival of spring must mean that it is time for the traditional photo of our chitting potatoes and sprouting seedlings.

As well as another year’s round up of local images of life returning, as lambs appear in the fields, and the early spring flowers and blossom burst forth.