Snowdrops!

I went outside earlier to hang the washing out - admittedly only because Alastair asked me to give him a hand, it's still rather cold for me to be venturing outside unprovoked - and it was a beautiful spring day.  Blue sky, sunshine, birds tweeting...and snowdrops!  Two tiny clumps have appeared totally spontaneously in my flower bed.  I am very excited. 

As you can see, I have a scruffy winter flower-bed.  Who didn't prune her buddleija and get rid of her annuals when she should have done?!

There are signs of life everywhere in the garden....

...but I am wondering when the bulbs I planted in the back end are going to come through.  August maybe?!