After seeing my photos appearing in Martin’s blog posts for the last couple of days, I thought I’d turn my hand to writing today’s blog.<\/p>\n
I started the day by taking my father-in-law for a birdwatching walk around Choppington Woods although, with everything frozen solid, there were very few birds to be seen.\u00a0 We did find a couple of distant Roe Deer but, on the whole, the walk consisted of a consistent attempt to not fall on the ice.\u00a0 With the partial thaw and heavy rain of yesterday, followed by another hard freeze overnight, all of the footpaths were covered with a treacherous layer of transparent ice.\u00a0 A couple we passed were complaining about their new walking boots not being any help to remaining upright.<\/p>\n
Back at home, lunch was home-made vegetable soup,\u00a0baked ham and a selection of cheeses.\u00a0 Just the thing in this weather.\u00a0 Martin had spent the whole morning in bed with a sore throat, ear-ache and a splitting headache; probably the outcome of having a puncture on the Landrover late last night and being outside in the bitter cold…without a hat or gloves!\u00a0 I have to wonder sometimes…<\/p>\n
He did perk up a bit once lunch was ready though, and then spent most of the afternoon processing and backing-up the images from the last few days.\u00a0 Tomorrow\u00a0the plan (weather permitting) is to try and photograph Kingfishers, and to get closer shots of Roe Deer. Good job we’ve got two cameras \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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