Living inside Tupperware

May is a beautiful month. Everything is lush, and what isn't green is mostly white - cow parsley along the edges of roads and fields, and candles on horse chestnut trees. Not much to be seen in the way of colour, as the spring flowers are mostly done and most of the rest are saving themselves for summer, but the green-ness of everything means that doesn't really matter, so long as the sun shines.

Which is why it is so annoying to be living 'inside Tupperware*' at the moment. Yes, we had a couple of nice days over the Bank Holiday weekend. Now we're back to grey and rain and cold, and it's *MAY* and there should be sunshine! How are my plants going to grow?


* A quote from Bill Bryson, who thus exactly described the kind of diffuse light we get when the sky is entirely covered in not-necessarily-threatening cloud.