Where's summer?

OK - so we may not have many readers yet however the 3 of you loyal fans have probably been wondering why no posts for the last month. Well the main reason is our weekends, when we would normally go out and take our pictures to inspire our blog, have been rained off. The bits in between haven't been much better either.

So what do we attribute this wet weather too? If global warming is upon us then where the heck is it. Bring it on I say...I can deal with smaller polar ice caps if it means the highlight of my weekend is something better than the trolley jams in the veg aisle at Tesco on a Sunday morning.

Thankfully we did manage to shake the dust off the camera a couple of weekends ago - it was a rare weekend when the weather was fine and dry. Saturday was spent at Mount Edgecumbe country park along with the rest of Swilly. Not weather for ducks (have I used this joke before?) but we did see them.... aaaaaah. Oh and moorhens too.



Yes, these photos were taken in their natural habitat (in a pond dodging giant pieces of stale kingsmill being thrown at them by well-meaning toddlers in burberry caps), and not as they swam past our front door last night...

The next day we did escape to the moors - it was T-shirt weather except for the bit at the the top of the tor. We went to Belliver, near Postbridge. Its a nice spot set on the edge of a pine forest nestled alongside the river Dart, popular with picnickers (including someone who brought a giant barbeque) and inflatable dinghy lovers.



We escaped the throng, and walked through the forest ending up at Belliver tor, where some teens on a school trip were struggling to read the map back to the car park. I showed them the way and felt like a seasoned mountaineer in my khaki hikers outfit - no wonder they asked me for help. Mind you they did need it - their first question was - 'can you tell us which tor this is?'. Despair could have led me to making fun of them but I couldn't have 6 missing teenagers on my conscience.

Since then weekends have meant either sneaking out to town in between rubbish weather or staying in and doing 'chores'. The only nature photos taken have been of the fat sparrows on the bird feeder. Here's an action shot for you, however its drama is somewhat ruined by the grey background..

Well, we are off to France for about a week on 7 July so hopefully I can top up on vitamin D and get some better pics then. In the meantime its watching the recorded games of years gone by on the Wimbledon coverage (as this years will never happen) and sailing to work....