No personal injury lawyers nearby when I fell on snow, but still, 'Spring is here'

Icicles at dawn

Icicles at dusk

For all intent and purposes it feels like we are living through the longest and coldest winter ever. Perhaps not the coldest but certainly the longest. I really felt the chill looking at icicles outside my window in 2010. No icicles have formed since then. When it snowed that year I fell and lost all confidence in my ability to walk on snow and ice. This really was a defining moment in my life. In one spectacular fall outside of the Radisson Edwardian Hotel in Cardiff I felt humiliated. And, in that moment my youth was over. Well, it really had been over for a very long time but until that fall I had somehow clung to the notion that I could walk on any surface and any subsequent fall would see me bounce straight back up faster than you could say Jack Robinson.

Since the fall there hadn't been any other even in the snow of 2012. 2011, aha what a winter. I ran all through it and even remember going out on a whirl on the 1st January 2012 so mild was the weather. But yes, this year I have struggled. Just outside of the St. John's Church in Cardiff, once in a while on Saturdays a gentleman wearing a red coat bearing the name of a local law firm specialising in personal injury would ask the passersby about recent accidents. I have never felt the need to bring up fall. One could not possibly sue the snow gods. Yet, I have been tempted. I note that across the pond someone had even filed a case against Phil the groundhog, the 'teller of spring' for getting it wrong this year.

Spring is here though, not in the leaves but in sound. I sense it.. If Charlie and Kenny say 'Spring is here', who am I to argue?