Never in most memories has spring crept up with so unwilling a step, but now it seems a change is coming 
and the plants, birds, insects and animals will catch up. Even Charles Dowding has had a bit of a struggle – but he has useful tips for coping with the everlasting winter (page 53).
Change is very much in the air, and both John Bishton, writing about Bruton Trust, and Annette Pitman, on Bruton The Way Forward (pages 15 and 19), enlarge on what is planned. As John says, change is necessary: a balance has to be struck between what is worth preserving and what could be improved for all residents’ benefit. One much-needed change: at long last the Hewden site car park near the church has become operative. See Mayor Alex Rubbo’s Town Council news (page 49).