Yesterday was one of those very ordinary days which pass by in the slipstream of our everyday lives unremarkable and unnoticed. David carried on painting the TYM's old bedroom and I grumpily wrote Christmas cards [honestly I only have to do a few every year, but I give my inner Drama Queen the floor and make very heavy weather of it😜] in the morning. We chatted over lunch about what we might do exercise wise and my gentle running of late isn't happening for now as am recovering from the usual November sniffles. In the end we decided to go to our local nature reserve which has become a calm oasis in our lives this year. This is something we do quite often so the only thing of note was that we walked the 40 minutes there rather than drove.
In a nutshell that was our day....except it wasn't we decided because later on we chatted through what we'd enjoyed and not enjoyed about our day [and yes I moaned about the cards and yes I still haven't finished them]. For me it was listening to some of the Secret Sussex podcast episodes which a friend recently recommended, seeing a cormorant diving for fish on the millpond for the first time, hatching holiday plans for next year, meeting the chap on his first visit to the reserve who was so excited to have got his first photos of a pheasant and a woodpecker [he shared his beautiful photos he'd taken over at Newton Abbot with me] and yes a white duck. I've never seen a white duck on the pond before. It would seem that it is 'just' a 'white domestic duck' except that it wasn't....instead it was a beautiful snowy white with a zingy orange bill and it looked completely at ease swimming around in the middle of its gang of mallard mates. Whether it'll be there next time we go who knows...that's the joy of being in nature. You never know what treats she has in store for you and on that note we're are hoping to volunteer with searching for the eggs of the Brown Hairstreak Butterfly next year. Not everybody's idea of a fun day out, but it will suit me down to the ground. Hope you find the richness in your day today. Have a good one.
Arilx
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