A delightful day bird watching with Y5 children from Manchester at Wick Court. I managed to catch a glimpse of the 5 star Bore on the River. Amazing to see the far bank got completely swamped – I’ve never seen that before at that part of the River Severn. We saw plenty of different species although nothing unexpected. We didn’t have much bird action with the afternoon group so I took them on a vole hunt (well looking for evidence of voles!) We had great fun and I had some great nature detectives with me! Amazing how much evidence there was!

On the book front I finished Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver a couple of days ago. I found it thoroughly engaging and I think Dickens would be pleased by the book! I have just started reading Camouflage (about Indian Soldiers in the two world wars) it was one of the books I was given in India.

Fingers crossed that my injury ravaged Mighty Hatters get a result tonight at the rearranged game at  Bournemouth– it will be an emotional game following what happened in the original game when our captain collapsed on the pitch.