Today is the first day of spring, our garden is covered with a bright display of daffodils, the weather is unsettled, warm and sunny one day, cold and wet the next.

Our local media has focussed on flooding in Tasmania, one man died, a sheep also. But heck, this seems like a small puddle compared with the US disaster, yet that news takes second place to local issues. Typical media!

This was my second winter in a kilt full time, our mild winters have been no problem. Two new kilts should be here for the summer, and so to celebrate the coming of spring I raise a glass of Ardbeg, think of Scotland, wear a kilt and thank God for the present safety we have here.