Slowing down…
I am slowly relaxing into my holiday. I went for a cold, windy and wet but restorative short hike up The Whangie with my friend Jo. We had planned this walk weeks ago and there was no weather bad enough that could keep us off the hill. Jack approved, he loves bounding up the Whangie. At this time of year, he can be off the lead because there are no ground-nesting birds and no sheep on the hill. There is plenty to explore for him, and lots of water to and mud to get excited about. He wasn’t very keen to pose for the photo. I also went out volunteering. Instead of working, we went on a walk to see all the work we had done over the last year, and take stock. We spent some time by the bird feeders in Dawsholm park. We had a small bag of seeds with us and a few fat balls, too. After fixing a couple of the broken feeders, we stayed on watching the birds. The news of seeds spread fast, there were nuthatches, robins, blue tits, coal tits and great tits. A couple of magpies and...
