Thanks for asking. I'm still getting better but it's very slow progress - it's been nearly 2 years now. It's a lot better than it was, and I can do most things that don't require sustained effort. I can walk about 5 miles, albeit slowly up the hills.
I'm hoping I might be able to jog at some point next year...
Cuckoo today.
Don't roll with a pig in poo. You get covered in poo and the pig likes it.
My solitary swallow still solitary. Alone for 27 days so far
Visibility good except in Hill Fog
Amazing. We have 3 or 4 here, plus the arrival of the house martins a week or two ago.
I was wondering if your solitary swallow will be waiting for its partner to arrive and whether it will find another if he/she doesn't arrive. Here's an article on it: https://www.avcr.cz/en/news-archive/...%20is%20common.
Like a lot of small birds, there's plenty of scandal in swallow love lives.
Thanks for that Noel.
My single swallow now has friends. This morning I noticed that 5 others have arrived.
Visibility good except in Hill Fog
Aerial battle seen from my bedroom window earlier today. Our local buzzard had found a thermal and had started circling upward, when a smaller bird, a crow I think, came flying straight at it. The crow continued harassing the buzzard until the latter flew off to find somewhere more peaceful.
In his lifetime he suffered from unreality, as do so many Englishmen.
Jorge Luis Borges
A heron with fish on the river sett at Hayfield.
Pete Shakespeare - U/A
Going downhill fast