Oh what a day ...

23 April

What a glorious day we have had so far today. My 11.40 diabetic appointment set the tone for it. All my blood levels were either down or smack in the middle of the required ranges apart from my B12 level. The biggest surprise though was that since last November, I have lost 9 kilos! That’s nearly 20lbs in English. That we are both very happy about.

After the clinic we headed out to Kingsbury Water Park where we spent a couple of hours birding. OK, we only got 27 species, but being out in that lovely sunshine was really good and made the trip worthwhile on its own. I’ve come back with around 100 photos that I’m about to sort out, but just now, waiting for Elements 12 to open them. Out of the 100 I have just eight keepers, and some of those are bit dicey too.

We used our scooters to get around there; it’s so much easier for us to do that. However, our batteries only just got us round there. Not only that but one of the larger, longer distance packs slipped out of the car and smashed on the road surface … opps  On the way home we came across an even bigger opps. We stopped at Shushstoke Reservoir to see if any house martin had arrived, Sadly mot yet; put in the resident parking area that was a smashed up car with both from and rear damaged, very damaged …  

   

For day’s now I have had fancy for rice and pasta, no, not together. So today I will be having some chicken rice with a few peas and sweet corn thrown in. Kile is due here again tomorrow, so we are going to have banger, egg n chips; the first fried food for around three weeks. Saturday Kile and I will have some pasta. What settled all this for us was that when Jan came in from her bible study night, she came in with five eggs, freshly laid that day; we want to try them. Now here’s the thing … each egg had come from a different breed of hen and you can see it by looking at them sitting together in the box she brought them home in.

Seeing it’s getting late, here’s today’s photo … 

A grey heron.

And from the Sage …

Business was terrible and not picking up. The boss had to fire somebody, and he narrowed it down to one of two people, Debra or Jack. It was an impossible decision because they were both super workers. Rather than flip a coin, he decided he would fire the first one who used the water cooler the next morning.
Debra came in the next morning with a horrible hangover after partying all night. She went to the cooler to take an aspirin. The boss approached her and said: "Debra, I've never done this before but I have to either lay you or Jack off.”
"Could you jack off?" she says. "I feel like s**t."