It’s that time of the month when the moon takes its 30th spin around our little planet and becomes full again.

It actually occurred on Monday, 25th March. Interestingly, although it reaches a “full” phase for a brief moment, our eyes may perceive it to be full for up to three days!

Why is it called the Worm Moon?

It’s called the Worm Moon because it’s the last full moon of winter and signifies the thawing and warming of the ground and the appearance of worm casts, as everything slowly starts to wake up and move about.

However, someone forgot to send the memo to Mother Nature.

The morning started cold but at least it was sunny. But by about 10:20 a heavy band of rain had set in and was obstinately staying put. With the temperature struggling to get past 4 degrees, it soon became very un-spring like.

But we cracked on with gentle snipping back, and trying to stain the remaining benches.

The rain got steadily heavier so we decided to have a cuppa in our all-terrain mugs and shared some chocolate-chip cookies.

As you can see, we have a little helper due to the Easter school holidays. We soon put her to work with a litter picker…

And amazingly, we found one of the painted rocks that we put out years ago…

We re-hid it and hopefully someone will have fun finding it again.

It all seemed to be drying out towards the end of last week, until a deluge of rain overnight. It really does seem like two steps forward – one step back, at the moment.

Next week we’re at the Potford Dam end with our new strimmers from Wickes, trying to get the first cut of those gentle curves made. It’s all in my mind’s eye at the moment so the difficulty is trying to get that mental image and turn it into reality.

I now know what enormous challenges great artists like Pablo Picasso had to wrestle with on a near daily basis…

Hmm… perhaps not.

And lastly, this week we had another unidentified visit from out of this world.

How bizarre that our little Martian friend has popped in again to see how we’re getting on.

And on that note, until next week, unless I get abducted by aliens between then and now!

Paul