'Tes unseasonable warm

It's very wet and (particularly compared to the last two years, when ice and snow have grabbed the garden and held on for months) remarkably warm outside.  My garden is quite confused about what is going on.  Loads of things are flowering in a slightly half-hearted baffled kind of way - many of them plants that normally don't flower until June, and some of them that have never quite stopped flowering since the summer.  And things that should be starting to sprout in late December, such as the snowdrops and daffodils, are having a long lie-in, and don't even seem to be trying.  

Here are some photos I took in the garden today:
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Edited the next day to add: and in the hedges, not only is there a pile of gorse in bloom, but the brambles are flowering too! What a strange year this is.