All good things

We have had a lovely ten days of spring weather. Glorious blue skies and no wind or rain have been the norm and i was just getting used to alfresco lunches. However, as is always the case, that period has ended and today is overcast with rain heading south and high winds with plummeting temperatures to follow.
The weather is a metaphor for life i guess and unless you are exceptionally lucky, the good days will always be broken up by the bad ones. If you are unlucky of course the reverse could be true.
I confess to being a follower of Manchester United. I am not a fan as such as i don't spend half of my income on watching them play, rather i enjoy watching them on TV or more often these days, listening to the games on the radio. Being the most successful team in the country, if not the world, means that they are the ones to beat, and so if any team wishes to do that, they must raise their game, and recently it seems that has been working, and not in united's favour. They have lost their last two games, badly, and worse, for a team with a good disciplinary record, they have had three players sent off. It would seem that they are running into a stormy patch and I hope that it will be a short one.
The problem here is that the warm weather has pushed all the growth forward and the Magnolias are about to burst into bloom. It would be so typical for that to coincide with the high winds that strip the petal as soon as they are open. Again I hope that is not the case and that spring will be resumed as soon as possible.