Spring Time!

Yesterday it finally felt like spring had arrived here in Edinburgh.  To celebrate Hubby and I went to the Botanical Gardens.  This would have to be one of my all time favourite things to do at any time of the year.  When I first moved to Edinburgh I was lucky enough to have a little flat just a 5 minute walk from the gardens and every Sunday morning I'd go for a walk there to help blow away the cobwebs.  For most people the appeal would probably be the tranquil babbling streams and all the exotic flowers and trees.  For me the appeal has always been the squirrels.  I know there are the puritans out there who will mock me for liking the common grey squirrel, I know the native red squirrels are suffering because of the diseases the grey ones have brought with them.  But the little grey squirrels in the gardens are just so cute!  How can anyone not like them?!?!?!?!

Every time we go Hubby buys a packet of peanuts each so we can feed them (he thinks I'm silly - the real reason we get the peanuts is because you can only buy them from the ice cream van across the road from the gardens and you can't go to the ice cream van and not buy an ice cream, the biggest 99 he can lay his hands on)!  If you're really lucky you can get the squirrels to actually eat out of your hand.  Unfortunately they were a bit shy yesterday and we only managed to find the one that wanted any food, he had two friends but they were enjoying the sunshine and were happy to chase one another up and down trees instead.