Where I live outside Ottawa, it has been wet and warm all week. Perfect weather for all the crocus bulbs I planted two months ago to wake up and decide that it's time to put up shoots — which emerged above the mulch today. The only problem is — it's January the bloody fifth! How do I tell my crocus bulbs to go back to sleep for three more months? And what about that holy lake and those new-born hedgehogs?
Perhaps John Baird can help us …