May

It's May. In April the sun shone and the thermometers went up to 23º or so in the middle of the day. Now we've been lighting the fire in the afternoon to keep a bit warmer. There's been a strong wind which has burnt the tender leaves of the plants I put out last month. Here they have a proverb which is almost the same as the English "cast not a clout 'til May is out" (don't start wearing summer clothes until it's really summer).