Spring is in the air...or is that Fabreeze I can smell ?

The sun is out the sky is blue and spring seems to be well and truly here... Many people look for the signs of spring in nature, it could be the daffodils gently bobbing their pretty yellow bonnets or maybe it's the lush green grass starting to grow after it's winter repast that gives you a sign, or perhaps it's the evenings taking slightly longer to settle in, making the day just that little bit longer that lets you know .

There are however many other ways to spot that the seasons are a changing ...

Here on the wrong side of the tracks it is much more likely to be the forty year old geezer strolling down the road with his freshly shaved head, clutching a can of Tennants Super, who has casually slipped into his three quarter length cargo pants that luckily just happen to reveal his slightly dodgy tattoo of a serpent curling protectively around a Union Jack... which also looks particularly effective due to the goose pimples covering his legs, because it is still only 4 degrees centigrade that gives you a clue, or equally, it could be the pounding melodies of the latest gansta rap album, that the fifteen year old tenant of the new one bedroom flats that have just been built three streets away has just acquired, softly drifting through his broken window that tells you winter is taking it's final bow.

Whatever it is that lets you know the weather is going to get warmer, be it the starlings preparing their nests for the chicks that are on their way, or even the teenage thugs tentatively lowering their hoods that does it, you must agree it can't help but put a smile on your face and a spring in your step.