April is the cruellest month - who said that? We certainly had some cruel weather to test the lambs in the fields and it was sure "to skin branny".
Temperatures plummeted to zero and below in most counties around Easter Sunday.
In England they refer to recent conditions as a Blackthorn Spring, where the white blossom of the blackthorn bush mimics the snow lying in the hedgerows and fields.
France’s Vineyard owners have predicted a catastrophic harvest there after record low temperatures produced frost that decimated vines across the country. The Minister of Agriculture in France has called it “the greatest agronomic disaster this century” in the country. April is cruel.
Hopefully though we’re looking forward to a more clement weather ahead. There's another quote -” April hope is rising- this might be a good summer after all”.
