Aforementioned sun wasn't particularly in evidence until after lunch and has mostly been hazy when not behind the clouds! And it wasn't really sitting around in heat, for that matter.
We started the day on a hunt for a small leather coin purse which has vanished in the last two days. We turned Elly upside down but nothing found. Asked at the campsite reception (as the last time I used it was for the washing machine on Friday) but nothing. The only scenario we can imagine is it dropped in the bin without us noticing as I climbed into Elly loaded with clean laundry, but that's a bit unlikely.
When the sun did come out I turned for my prescription sunglasses. We haven't needed sunnies for over a week. No sunglasses (nor the case). I have no idea where these have disappeared to.
Oh well we'll just add that to the list of 'happenings' since we left home which now number ...
No cash being dispensed from a cash machine at Teebay (even though it spat out a receipt saying Mr G had drawn £100).
My watch stopped working the day before the wedding.
A mystery as to how the heavy and tapped down flower display in the church porch fell over.
My phone gave up on arrival at the no-wifi campsite in Norfolk.
Missing leather coin purse.
Missing prescription sunglasses.
Twice broken bike chain.
Rear puncture to Mr G's bike yesterday.
Wrong spare tyre to mend the puncture and today ...
Went to use the newly purchased correct valve inner tube and low and behold the valve is too short to pump up adequately.
Why us?
In the event, as I followed Mr G cycling at a painfully slow pace on his pancake of a rear tyre, I realised I could use my road bike gas canister inflater . The return journey was much speedier!
We only cycled a short distance to Kirkby Nature Reserve (reclaimed gravel pits) and managed to add some more birds to our list of spots, and I'm pretty sure I spotted a mink as well (I've emailed the Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust to report/ask).
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| Better shot of a Shelduck (first seen at Cley) |
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| Black-headed Gull |
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| Common Tern |
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| Coot on her nest with red-headed babies! |
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| Great Crested Grebe :-) |
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| Pochard |
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| Mute swans with two cygnets - foreground nesting terns with black-headed gulls |
Just sitting uploading these I can hear cuckoos and I saw a jay yesterday fly to a perch behind where we are parked.
Tomorrow we head for York, via the bike shop to exchange the short-valved spare tubes ...
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