Sunny.

We were promised a dry day and that's what we got at least until 3.00 (playtime). I was back out weeding this morning and though I was in the shade it was good to see the sun on the fields and trees around. I've got half-way up one of the long sides of paving and I started with the worst sections to make the job easier as I go along. The poor old hen is very much on her last legs. Or not on her legs as of yesterday. She is finding it hard to walk so I made sure she had water and corn where she could reach them. Each time I go up there I expect to find her 'gorn' but this evening she answered my call with a low cluck when I checked the hen house. At least it is still very mild.

The 2 acers down by the house were catching the sun just before I left for work.

Spot the bird ! I could hear a bird singing high up in the ash tree behind the house, 

but it was only when I enlarged the photo that I saw it was a woodpecker. 

I stayed on at school to stick work into books and then drove across town to the Post Office, right in the middle of our local rush hour. At least I remembered to cut through the industrial estate and avoided the long wait at the traffic lights on the Braunton road. Driving home I was startled by a small bird which flew up right in front of the car which I may well have hit. I was just getting over that when a branch sticking out of the hedge whacked the side if the car with a bang. It has taken a bit of paint off the front pillar but nothing else. I was waiting for a third thing to happen but I was driving carefully around the final blind bend when a massive feed lorry coming towards me caused me to stop so that doesn't really count.