Spring doesn’t officially start for more than a month, but already there are lambs cavorting around the fields.
School used to stop for three weeks in August when I was a kid, and I always reckoned that the wild ducks starting laying their eggs around August 15. So come the August vacation and I’d be looking for ducks’ nests. I always (privately) think that Spring begins mid-August!
Somewhere in today’s music there’s bits of an old nursery rhyme (I think).
Listen to the music HERE.
It is definitely not spring in Christchurch (but I am from the South Island) 🙂
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Still getting big frosts here in Levin, but my daffodils are in flower!
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Mines tried but changed their minds
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….yes sir, yes sir, this is beauty-full…
(15 August here, my friend Eileen always goes to the ocean to gather a bottle of water. It is holy water on that day….at least that’s her Assumption.)
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If I get it early it would be a Pre-assumption…
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Or a presumption.
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😀
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So, does spring start on 21/22 September in New Zealand? For some strange reason, our seasons change on the 1st on March, June, September and December.
Little lambs gambolling in the meadows has to be the sweetest thing you’ll ever see!
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No – the New Zealand Government decided (contrary to what nature took billions of years to evolve) that the seasons start on the first of the month and not at the Solstice or Equinox. I follow Nature’s way!
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Ah, now I understand. I don’t understand why our countries are so “original” with the seasons.
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I can’t understand it either. The change in weather/temperature etc on the real seasonal dates is dramatic. I totally ignore the “official” dates and we celebrate the proper ones!
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Wonderful — all of it. “Gambolling” is one of the best words ever!
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Yes! It’s a great word – and so is lambkins (although old-fashioned). Of course with “gambolling” I’m caught in the great Atlantic Rift… one or two L’s?
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I believe either spelling is acceptable. I like the two L’s — they look like what the word describes. Yes, love “lambkins” also!
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I took a gamble with the two L’s – but you’re right it, two L’s looks more like gambolling. Perhaps we should use three – it would be more fun!
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Agreed!
Frolicking alone would be gamboling.
Coupled frolicking would be gambolling.
And the most fun of all involves three: gambollling!
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LOL! You take the fro out of frolicking!
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LMFAO!
My dear ‘Goodman’, you have no idea! For nine out of ten times the fro must be removed!
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Cynthia bleat me to it. Lovely little tune, Bruce.
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Bah! Thanks, Derrick. You both have excellent taste!
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Three bags full is what I can hear. No daffodils here yet. Still cold, frosty, wet, freezing – take your pick.
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I mowed my lawn yesterday. It’s growing like billy-oh!
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27 here in QLD today 😦 I fear spring came and went already, boohoo. Cute piece, it made me smile 🙂
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27!!!! Each season should take 3 months!
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Charming lambkin dance! and very cute lambs in the picture.
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Thanks – I shall enjoy
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I must admit, I was worried when I saw the title, I thought what dire fate are these gambolling lambs going to have 🙂 But instead, I got spring and music, lovely!
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It’s like the Porgy and Bess song: I got plenty o’ mutton!
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Baa Baa Black Sheep?
Mary Had A Little Lamb?
I know.
Who’s Afraid Of The Big Bad Bruce?
er, I mean Wolf.
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Big is right, but I’m not sure about the Bad! May you continue to Twinkle, twinkle, Little Star!
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Ah! I hear it now! Yes!
Bruce be nimble, Bruce be quick!
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Sugar and spice and all things nice…
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That doesn’t rhyme at all with ‘candlestick’ !
Besides, I much prefer…
“Snips and snails
And puppy-dogs’ tails”.
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Rhyme is not my forte…
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