Afternoon all,
Our family feast is today, as that is when people could get here. Turkey in over, everything else primed and ready to go.
Got all this set up early, and ran out to sailing club for the Frostbite Spoon race. I never had any intention of sailing, just intended to be a good ghoul. It was cancelled, and the sailors all went off for a walk together. I got there too late for the walk, but son 1 had stayed around to give me a lift home.
It was a good run with training partner, and with Lucy carrying about 4kg. Probably got away with it, although pf started complaining ominously by the end. Will know tomorrow whether I did or didn't.
Good day to watch the water birds. Since much of river was frozen, on the unfrozen stretches there was much going on. Grebes, dabchicks, moorhens. I thought I saw a tree with lots of dead leaves, rather large dead leaves at that, and it turned out to be cormorants sunning themselves. There were plenty of them on the water too, diving and then resurfacing to poke their yellow beaks up to the sun. Great day to be on the towpath.
