If it had not been for that special factor pulling down output in the second quarter, it looks as though the UK's official GDP numbers would have shown the economy to be growing since the spring.

BBC: A special recovery

She learned how to build a fire pit, and she plans on growing a fruit and vegetable garden in the spring.

CNN: From Beverly Hills to shoveling manure on a farm

It would be difficult to imagine something less likely to spring from a child growing up in industrial Manchester in the 1950s than poetry of this kind.

ECONOMIST: New verse

It was only when the stock market showed its growing concern, by rolling over into corrections each spring, that politicians awakened to reality and in panicked late-night sessions reached last minute agreements on whatever was the worrisome issue at the time.

FORBES: Markets Can Handle Anything, Even A Sequester

Economic output is now growing again, and most economists believe the economy will begin adding jobs by the spring.

ECONOMIST: Small signs of recovery cannot shift the general gloom

But there is a tastier side to Salt Spring creativity, with a growing menu of artisan food and drink producers on the island.

BBC: Canada��s creative island escape

Wages and salaries had been growing at a 4 percent pace in mid-March and this slowdown is similar to the late spring slowdowns in each of the past few years.

FORBES: Why Stock Prices Should Keep Rising Despite Slowing Wage Growth

As a result, the seasonally adjusted figures in the fall should benefit from a smaller number of construction layoffs, not so much because construction is growing, but because the workers who would normally be laid off in the fall were never hired in the spring.

FORBES: Seasonally Adjusted Jobless Claims