family visiting!

Eleanor has taken lots of lovely photos of last year's and this year's ducks and drakes, and I shall post a selection pretty soon.  Just for a taster, look at this little sequence of our moulting Joseph and Georgie:

Kiss?

Aw, we're so embarrassed ... 

... quick, let's have a preen and pretend nothing's happened.

Carl, Val and dog Alfie came along yesterday afternoon [the 2 girls are at Guide Camp] and went for walk with Annie, Ell and Ollie while I tried to clean the "baby pond" [had a problem with the pump and Carl had to solve the problem after they returned].  I LOVE this photo Annie took at the pond in Lount Nature Reserve:

"Throw it Carl, quick!" Annie entitled this one.

Carl sneaked some pictures of my pond cleaning efforts and he and Annie also took shots of the poor local flock deprived of their swimming facility - temporarily!