It may be crisis point in the world of financial markets, banks, Treasuries, Exchequers and Kings’ Counting Houses but, here in the South-West of England, spring has truly sprung.

A carpet of daffodils heralds spring in the northern hemisphere

I’m aware that the weather can be as treacherous as the stock markets, but no-one can doubt that there’s a bullish mood in the bulbous population just below ground.

With flooding and mayhem elsewhere in the country, we at least have a sign of what is to come.

Let us hope it’s a metaphor for the world economy.