Trailer March_April 1949

March opens with snow on the fields, rain at the windows,and bitter winds sweeping across the farmyard. Winter is reluctant to leave, and the house is still full of fires, mending baskets, coughs and colds, and children restless from too many muddy days indoors but through it all runs the real heart of these diaries —the ordinary, beautiful business of family life… meals, visitors, gardens, birthdays, farm work, and the quiet feeling thatwinter has finally been left behind. Join me on Sunday, as we step into March and April 1949…when the last grip of winter begins to loosen, new life arrives in thefarmyard, and across the fields at Hiltonbury, spring does not simply appear —it announces itself.