February 2026 - Is Winter turning to Spring? - All The News from No.fifty6
Posted on 28th February 2026 by Julie and David Thomson in General News.
After January seemed to go on for at least 3 months, February has zoomed past. February always feels like a bridge between winter and spring, though the weather has been more on the wintry side with more grey days, sleet, snow, winds and rain. You can count on one hand the blue-sky days – welcome when they come, but as the month waves hello to March the weather really does feel it is on the turn. While our spring flowers are beginning to poke their heads above the soil, they are not yet brave enough to come out fully and expose their spring glory. Despite the grey days, February is a good month to explore The Somme. The days are lengthening, the views are amazing with no (or at least very low) crop. It has been good having intrepid travelers here to share The Somme with. And it has been quite a busy month with lots of lovely people through our door to share the Somme, suitably attired in hats, coats and gloves to brave the Somme chill.
Two such visitors were Bob and Pauline who had heard about us but visited us for the first time. Both ex military, they have been frequent visitors to the Western front and Bob writes poetry – always moved by the Silent Cities where those who did not go home lie. He had not written a thing until he woke up at 3am one morning and a poem came to him.
