Hello Spring!

Dear Sarie,
thanks for your letter, Madrid sounds amazing! your description sort of reminded me of San Sebastian with all the tapas bars and things like that. i think you would like it there too!

I hope you are feeling ok, just remember all the things that make you happy and concentrate on those! and you have vic's visit to look forward to, and i may have to come and visit again and take photos!

I'm at vic's house at the moment. last night we went to carole's dinner for inspirational women. it was quite good but we arrived late because my bus from cardiff was late getting in. we were supposed to be sitting on specific tables but we arrived to late and had to sit on this near empty table but for one women. we also missed the bit where everyone mingled i guess which would have been interesting to speak with some of the other women. they had a leaflet that had a small biography about everyone who was there. i didnt have time to write mine so carole and grace wrote mine, it said:
"yurt dwelling photographer, traveller and sister" hah! i thought that was quite good!
i spoke to this one women who said that she lives in a yurt in the summer time. she was really nice! she was really interested to know what it was like to do the winter in the yurt. she was also on a raw food diet and had been for quite a long time i think, and does yoga. there were quite a lot of interesting sounding women but we didnt get to speak to them! oh well...

I've been feeling happy about the return of spring, and glad to see it as we missed it last year beause we were in india. Last week or so me and lea went for a walk in this huge park in the middle of Cardiff called Bute Park, which is an arbiritum (which means it has lots of different trees from all over the world). We were adrmiring all the daffodils and blossoms and collected them. then we stumbled upon the flowering Magnolia tree which we could see from the other side of the park, bright pink. then we walked over to it andstood underneathe it and found these amazing skeletal lacy leaves which we colllected. Then yesterday on the bus into london i kept on spotting these amazing trees in peoples little front gardens, so bright and beautiful. All of the blossom was out and the trees are getting thier buds and turning into leaves. it made me feel very happy!