A long cold winter

So this winter drags on and on. I could not live in Norway. Today the weather is foggy and icy. the weather forecast is for more sleet, snow, ice and fog and continuing this until next week or in other words for the foreseeable future.

I heard on the radio the other day that spring will be spectacular as we have had such a long cold winter but I don't know what they base this on. Surely more birds have died and more plants have died due to the cold and perhaps there will be less blossom not more as a result?

I keep saying spring must be only weeks away now surely and although the mornings are lighter and its light till 5 now this winter still seems to drag on and on and on and I can hardly imagine wearing light summer clothes and leaving doors open and sitting on the grass or listening to the sea and talking of which I am going to book a train trip to Cornwall for the spring right now.