Yes! Checking the weather app on my phone this morning, I saw that the days are now only a few minutes less than 12 hours, that is from sunrise to sunset. The spring equinox is less than a week away, oh joy, oh joy, oh joy.
Have all winters felt as long and grey and cold as this one? Probably not. But sometimes they do seem to go on forever.
However we have tulips and primulas and forget-me-nots flowering in the garden, trees beginning to have the greenish haze of new leaves on the top-most branches, and real leaves on clematis vines and the lilac.
I spent months learning this, a few bars at a time, whenever I visited my aunt's house. Her copy of the music was very fragile and she didn't want to lend it to me, so I memorised the next couple of bars every week.
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