Welcome to the posts you might have missed this week on Smorgasbord.

Happy Easter and also to those of you celebrating Passover this week. Whilst I am not religious, for me this weekend each year celebrates the start of spring and the hope that it brings. The natural world is waking up and bursting into colour. The birds in the garden are in full courting mode and have been putting on some wonderful displays of athleticism which sadly often end up in rejection by the look of it, but they get A for effort.

A cat has taken to popping in several times a week and I think probably her owners go to work and let her out as she is absent at the weekend. She also disappears around 5pm when she does visit so I guess that his when her family return from work or school.

I will admit…