Spring, and bus eavesdropping

I have to tell you, I never thought it would happen. Ever! I had given up, resigned myself to the freezing fate; and then it sprung on me. Oh sweet spring! Not the full-blown, all sun and birdsong madness of the South, but the gentle, shy, and so slooooow spring of the North. Oh you've taken your time this year - a month late!? You'd better make it up to me.

So, it's doing its best. On the run yesterday I could smell the grass growing, and the apple tree was in flower. The blackbirds are singing, and I saw birds collecting plastic scraps for their nests, possibly the saddest scene in the world. Still, we're going ahead with this full shebang, (hopefully) no stopping it now. And here is the proof.

Princes Street Gardens covered in thousands of daffodils.

Some even make it to the cemetary.
Green shoots on tentative shrubs.

An unusually trusting dunnock.
The fountain is turned on in the Princes Street Gardens for the first time.
With the usual Edinburgh wind blowing, everyone around it gets soaked, but they don't seem to mind.

And, below, for entertainment value, a conversation I overhaerd on the bus between two teenage girls, speaking in Polish. I had to bite my lip very, very hard.

'I bought like three white tops. Yeah, this, and another, and with short sleeves. It's like, I love white, real white, y'know? Fucking love it. So, yeah, and when you see him, when he's here, you'll be like, you'll hate him. You'll be like, he's such an idiot, I can't believe I was in love with such an idiot, I must have been fucking stupid!'
'Yeah...'
'Yeah, I tell you. I could be, like, a psychologist, I know! Like, this guy, I have like, such a good connection with him, I can always give him, like, advice, y'know? I wanna be a psychologist.'

'Yeah, you earn a lot of money.'
'Yeah, a fucking lot of money. But I don't want to go to university.'
'You have to go to university to be a psychologsit!'
'Well, yeah, but to be like, a hairdresser, I just have to do college.'
'Yeah, but..'
'You don't get it, I fucking love it, it's my hobby. And the best thing is, you can put some cash away, and open your own salon, y'know? So I could do this as, like, a hobby, and do something else for money. Like a lawyer, or tourism.'
'What is tourism actually?'
'It's like, you learn Spanish, like, and you travel and meet people.'