Spring is

Patience.

John Burningham describes Spring as birds nesting, pigs rooting, lambs playing, ducks dabbling and flowers.

‘Seasons’ by John Burningham

So far, it doesn’t feel like Spring has Sprung in London and although I haven’t seen any rooting pigs, playing lambs or dabbling ducks, I have got some flowers (and I did see some nesting birds in a compost toilet this weekend).

This is the first year we’ve got properly invested in planting some flowers on our balcony and as I have had to be patient with the weather, I have had to learn to be patient with the flowers.

It got me thinking about imagining what your little seed could turn into. So please enjoy ‘Patience’. A very rough, swift, not final story first draft.

I am so excited to plant this seed. I wonder what it will be.

Perhaps so much will grow that it will create a whole jungle!

It’s growing! I wonder what it will be.

Perhaps it will be a beautiful meadow full of insects and bugs.

It’s already getting so big! I wonder what it will be.

Perhaps it’s a super special seed that will turn into a cat.

Somethings coming out the top! I wonder what it will be.

Perhaps it will grow into loads of vegetables so I will always have something to eat.

Oh my goodness. It’s here! It’s a beautiful flower! It’s perfect, I love it.

It needs to be longer and a lot of refining but it’s a nice place to start.