It is good to be back at my desk writing – it means I am not too tired to take the dogs for a walk in the evening. For nine months I have been building, concreting, roofing an doing a lot of physical work so by the evening I was too tired to go out – very boring for Carole as she usually took the dogs out. The river through our village is called the Thongue and we have discovered a lot of walks along the banks through the vineyards.
This evening I stopped at place where the dogs often paddle and cool down, but they were off chasing rabbits so I stood quietly for a few minutes watching the fish below and a kingfisher landed on a branch right in front of me – only a few seconds – but it was brilliant.