This is the most amazing time of year, everywhere you look there’s new life.

Flowers are beginning to bloom, birds are preparing their nests, tiny rabbit kittens graze on the grassy roadsides - there is ‘ahhh factor’ galore!

Even in our own back garden we’ve had some special babies this year. For the first time the frogs have laid spawn and we have hundreds (literally) of fat tadpoles swimming around in our pond.

I’m always fascinated with the pond because only a couple of summers ago it was just a plastic lining filled with tap water, a couple of bunches of pond weed and two water snails. Now it is so full of life, aside from the frogs, tadpoles and snails there are all kinds of insect larvae, plants and even the land dwelling wildlife such as blackbirds rely on it for baths and drinks. I always think of our garden pond as a tiny example of how resilient nature is.

The other newborns we witnessed this week were some spider babies which had been nesting in the corner of a window pane in our back door. The most incredible thing was to watch them collectively construct a long thread of launch web which allowed them to float off and make their own way in the world.

Nature is resilient but it is also a delicate balance and it is things like this that remind you why we must do our best not to cause it even more damage.