After months and months of cold and dark and weary winter nights (and days) we Scandinavians tend to get a little bonkers when the first signs of spring finally arrive, hence this time of year you can here see such things as families gathering for a barbecue on the first hedgehog roadkill of the year, exhilarated kiddies jumping for joy in thawing dog poo, public transportations arriving on time more than once in a blue moon and park street flashers with wood-anemones under the foreskin instead of the warming sock over the private parts they need for the major part of the year. Well, maybe that last part is just me, but apart from that I tend to stay quite placid, unless of course you count this overwhelming urge I always have to do away with remaining neighbourhood snowmen if they have not melted away by themselves by the ides of April. Here's a song about that.

A YouTube version of the original song can currently be found here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_EnGOV_wuc

© Peter Andersson.