I'm lucky - my bike ride to work is mostly through fields and forests. The blue-bells are out in force at the moment and look wonderful.

I saw a young deer yesterday morning, running along the road. I suspect that the sight of me alarmed it somewhere as it skittered along in front of my bike (I wear a lot of high-visibility gear and have been compared unfavourably to a grapefruit on a cocktail stick when pedalling my bike.)

"Shoo" I said "Get back into the woods, you might get hurt"

On the way back last night I saw a young deer dead in a ditch by the side of the road.

I cried.