Comments on: On The Eve Of Spring https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/03/19/the-beginning-of-spring/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Sat, 20 Mar 2021 15:33:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Mary https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/03/19/the-beginning-of-spring/#comment-1371225 Sat, 20 Mar 2021 15:33:10 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=186090#comment-1371225 My grandmother was buried there in 1960. I was 10 and remember her funeral, following a horse-drawn hearse carriage–the horses wearing large black plumes–from her home (where her shrouded body lay in pine box in a bedroom before the burial) around the corner and up Southern Grove. The house itself backed up to the cemetery. Nice to think of Nanny surrounded by nature. Live over the Pond now so don’t get to visit very often.

]]> By: Lizebeth https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/03/19/the-beginning-of-spring/#comment-1371156 Fri, 19 Mar 2021 14:56:06 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=186090#comment-1371156 Just to show us that there is always life in death. These ancient cemeteries are beautiful places of peace, and history.

]]> By: Sally Williams https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/03/19/the-beginning-of-spring/#comment-1371151 Fri, 19 Mar 2021 13:31:22 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=186090#comment-1371151 What a particularly lovely post this is! Thank you

]]> By: Lynne Perrella https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/03/19/the-beginning-of-spring/#comment-1371149 Fri, 19 Mar 2021 13:08:53 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=186090#comment-1371149 The beauty and optimism of this post is so well-timed. Thank you, as ever.
You seem to have a gift for capturing the green velvet on these weathered stones…..and
making it look downright “wearable”. I imagine Guinevere in a forest, wrapped in a robe of the stuff.

Spring at last! Hurrah and huzzah.
Stay safe, all.

]]> By: Sally Gregson https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/03/19/the-beginning-of-spring/#comment-1371148 Fri, 19 Mar 2021 12:43:03 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=186090#comment-1371148 Hey JV. Lovely images. I’ve just caught up with you on Instagram too. (Finally!). x

]]> By: david whittaker https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/03/19/the-beginning-of-spring/#comment-1371146 Fri, 19 Mar 2021 12:27:52 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=186090#comment-1371146 BEAUTIFUL
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]]> By: Helen Breen https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/03/19/the-beginning-of-spring/#comment-1371143 Fri, 19 Mar 2021 12:10:50 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=186090#comment-1371143 Greetings from chilly Boston,

GA, thanks for reminding us of the exact time of spring’s arrival this year – we all really need it. Love your photos too.

My first trip to London was in the third week of February (school vacation) twenty years ago. I thought I remember daffodils in profusion there and in Stratford. I just know there were blooms, so different from the climes in New England in late winter.

Missing London today…

]]> By: Ann V https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/03/19/the-beginning-of-spring/#comment-1371142 Fri, 19 Mar 2021 11:21:09 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=186090#comment-1371142 Beautiful, a promise of spring. Thank you.

]]> By: Pauline Taylor https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/03/19/the-beginning-of-spring/#comment-1371140 Fri, 19 Mar 2021 11:04:06 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=186090#comment-1371140 Thank you GA. A lovely reminder that no matter how grim the days that we are living in now seem we must never give up hope. Spring flowers are the perfect example that much that is strong and beautiful can remain hidden until it is released by sunshine and showers and humankind is much the same, kindness and compassion just need nurturing and they will bloom again. Less attractive and rampant plants can overwhelm them at times but given the care of a gardener and his, or her, green fingers they can be removed and the bulbs allowed to grow and bloom in all their glory again. I live in hope that so it will be with our country again despite these dark days.

]]> By: Cherub https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/03/19/the-beginning-of-spring/#comment-1371139 Fri, 19 Mar 2021 11:02:02 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=186090#comment-1371139 I’ve found in these past few weeks the emergence of snowdrops and crocus along my street has cheered me up and offered a bit of hope out of the covid situation. The third lockdown has been very strict where I’m based and has really affected people, many of us who are ex-pats haven’t been able to travel to see family at home for over a year now. Anything pretty, natural and cheerful has provided a great mental boost and I think we all need that after a year of dark days.
This weekend I’m planning to decorate an Osterbaum (Easter tree) with painted eggs to brighten the living room of my apartment.

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