The swan…
Ed played golf today while I stayed at home and minded the house (aaahhh) so he was under strict instructions to find out about the swan.
Apparently all the eggs have hatched, although I’m not sure how they know that since no one has seen the cygnets. The cob is still hugely aggressive, and the thinking is that the swan has hidden the cygnets in the reed bed until they are big enough to venture forth, while the cob fiercely deters all comers.
Meanwhile, the oyster catcher (it’s a bird with a long, slender red beak and red legs, normally only found on the sea shore) still has three chicks, or three little bundles of fluff on long, spindly legs.
Yes, life on the golf course is fairly humming.
We’ve just had solar panels fitted onto our roof – for free. A local green energy company has a brokered a deal with the government and the National Grid, to put in solar panels on south-facing roofs, and maintain it, free of charge. We get free electricity from the sun, and the company gets paid by the Grid for any we don’t use, the whole scheme being underwritten by the government.
We’re delighted, and keep nipping through to peek at the meter to say how much we’re getting for free. Apparently it should reduce our electricity costs by around 45% – can’t be bad!
Tomorrow we’re off to Belgium via Eurostar, for a week. See you in June, ‘bye for now!