MoonMOOC & Spring.

I'm half way through the MOOC on moons which I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, fascinating, loads of interesting information on all the Solar System's moons. Go for it if you have a few hours a week to spare.
Spring appears to be coming, in spite of a horribly wet DofE Gold practice in the lake District, campsites flooded, soaked literally to the skin, but 1 good sunny day. Paradoxically, the more the Little Herberts were slithering in the mud the gigglier they became.
The weather has a few constant patterns, does anyone else have a frost-predicting Pieris? I have a beautiful variegated one with brilliant scarlet new leaves, like clockwork there's a frost when it's at its very best. This year the frost was gentle and only knobbled a small part of it, now regrown and like a traffic light outside the window. There's also guaranteed to be a gale as the Stag's Horn Sumach is at its most fiery.