I am going to ignore the news about the further postponement of Local Government Reorganisation since firstly this is very well covered in the EADT and secondly something far more interesting happened this morning.
Our new pond has attracted quite a lot of wildlife at once! We looked out of our bedroom window to see the duck who has been visiting the pond on a regular basis now has eleven ducklings, pictured above.
I fear that local cats and other predators will make their future rather uncertain. The first task is to persuade Rendle the Lurcher that he shouldn't regard them as playthings.
