THOSE few golden days of winter sunshine recently seem to have brought us hopefully blinking and smiling out of hibernation.

Following the interminable deluge, the near-Nordic blink-andyou'll- miss-them windows of daylight, and months of bundled scurrying, there seems to be light at the end of the tunnel.

When I first moved back to Salisbury I was visited by a number of my friends, curious to check out my natural habitat.

However, in the past few months there has definitely been a tailing off as post Christmas budgets, diets and detoxes reign.

Now, just as the trees and hedgerows are beginning to spring tentatively to life, so too is my inbox, with suggestions of visits.

It has made my mind turn to the varied things there are to do around here, and I've come up with a list of Things That All Salisbury Residents Should Do To Make The Most Of Our City.

I haven't done all of these yet, but hopefully I will in the next few months:

1) Browse the new farmers’ market.

2) Go to a service at the cathedral.

3) Walk through the water-meadows incorporating a meal/ drink at the Old Mill, Harnham.

4) Watch the sun rise at Stonehenge.

5) Walk along Milford Street at 11pm on a Friday night and feel happy to not be a teenager again.

6) Go to a gig at the Arts Centre that makes you feel like a teenager again.

7) Discover the magical time when a bluebell wood is in full bloom.

8) Explore Old Sarum and buy something from the shop that you don't need and will never use again (a bottle of mead in my case).

9) Do a ghost tour.

10) Find a local cause that means something to you, and support it.

11) Wander round the upstairs of Fisherton Mill with no real intent.

12) Find the best spot for chestnutting/sloepicking/ mushrooming.

13) Go for a run/cycle round Avebury Rings.

14) Look up the history of some of the oldest pubs and then visit with newly opened eyes.

15) Go to something at Salisbury International Arts Festival that you don't quite understand, and walk away afterwards still scratching your head.

Have I missed any?