Life carries on whatever the world throws at us – The Yorkshire Post says

There are, of course, many places to catch sight of perhaps the most welcome seasonal spectacle, not least the city walls in York. But the unparalleled display at Farndale, deep within the North York Moors National Park, is a particularly timely reminder of nature’s facility to renew itself.

This is a spot on which tourists used to descend by the coachful, to see for themselves the roaming fields where the daffs grew wild. But the wartime requirement to turn every bit of available land over to growing vegetables restricted their growth.

This year, three-quarters of a century on, locals swear that the flowers have began to reclaim some of the land lost to them. It is a phenomenon they are at a loss to explain – but the wonder of it will be lost on no-one.