Not "Swallows and Amazons" sed Swallows and Swifts et al

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How lovely to see the swifts hurtling back and forth over the rooftops. We shall have to take a ride to Talkin Tarn for there we shall get a really wonderful sight of them all swooping over the water catching insects together with swallows and house martins – hundreds of them!! From the hides we watch them through our binoculars and it really is an awesome experience being so close to them. Fortunately there are convenient seats placed around the 1.13m, (1.8km) perimeter. These are mainly dedicated to those who cherished the Tarn during their life time and bear little plaques in memory of them.
I used to be able to walk for miles and regret that is no longer possible.

This morning Roy took a thank you card and a box of chocs down to the ladies in the charity shop who scraped him up off the road and dusted him down before the medics got to him on 19th. He was so pleased that they recognized him straight away and addressed him by his name. Fame at last! They were pleased he has made a good recovery. Earlier, while wearing my nurse’s cap, I redressed some of his wounds and after sterilizing a needle released some pus from his left palm which immediately brought relief. On the whole everything is healing well apart from the bruising to his chest that is still very painful. We feel so grateful it was not worse.

The frost yesterday morning had a spiteful attempt to damage our plants but today they appear to look quite recovered. I almost went out in the dark to cover them with fleece when I heard the late night weather forecast, but was prevented by Roy’s sound advice.

It is sunny here and a little warmer so I hope you are also enjoying some fine weather wherever you are.

I promised a photo of icicles on the River Gelt taken by my Grandson, Jesse and here it is followed by some wonderful pictures of snow bales he actually watched being formed by the wind blowing the snow along in the fields behind the Farm. – Spectacular!

Oh what a bind! The icicles photo cannot be accepted in its present form so I shall have to try later . I am determined you shall see it. Hope you like the others.

• 4 May, 2010
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