{"id":2368,"date":"2010-03-28T22:33:26","date_gmt":"2010-03-28T22:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=2368"},"modified":"2010-03-28T22:33:26","modified_gmt":"2010-03-28T22:33:26","slug":"spring-is-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=2368","title":{"rendered":"Spring Is Here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spring has definitely arrived!<\/p>\n<p>The clocks went forward this morning on to British Summer Time (BST), and the weather &#8211; as usual &#8211; hasn&#8217;t followed the path the Met Office said it was going to yesterday (&#8220;<span style=\"color: #000080;\">it will get much colder and lots of places will have snow &#8220;). It&#8217;s been sunny and warm.<\/p>\n<p>The nice weather, combined with it also being a weekend, has brought the chavs and other bad drivers out in force. 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