Springwatch presenter KATE HUMBLE on the unpredictable delights of spring - and of working with Bill Oddie on the live tv event of the year. IT IS HARD TO about spring without resorting to cliches about it being a time of optimism and new life, whichis exactly what it is all about and precisely why I love it. As I write, I'm sitting with the door open onto my tiny urban garden. The woodpigeons are cooing, drowning out the planes coming into Heathrow, a blackbird is pecking wistfully at my wormery, my sapling silver birch is coming into bud and the two mice that live under the old wood I thought would make a good refuge for insects are chasing each other around the herbaceous border. And to top it all off, the sun is shining. In short, if s a perfect spring day.
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