Duck Soup

It is another lovely day with bright warm sunshine, but it is very chilly in the shade.

We had a quiet start. Urban-Cub has a day off today, so there was no rush to get anything done. Once Ellie was washed and dressed it had warmed up enough for the Gorse Fox to be enticed into the garden to sit on the deck with Ellie and do some jigsaw puzzles. He also had the pleasure of chasing her, and being chased by her, round and round and all over the place. The other distraction was her swing. Urban-Cub got on with some laundry, and the Silver Vixen did some tidying and dead-heading in the garden.

At lunchtime the Coventry Hobbit turned up to retrieve their bike. Unfortunately, though he could remember the combination code for the lock, we couldn't get it to release. In the end the Gorse Fox dug out some bolt-cutters from the garage and the bike was free. The Coventry Hobbit, furloughed from his job as a chef in the pub, has managed to get work at the local Morrisons. He had an induction session today and starts for real tomorrow.

After lunch Ellie was playing up a bit so the Gorse Fox decided to take her for a walk to give everyone a break and let her run off some steam. We had explained that the play-parks were locked and couldn't be used but she insisted on checking herself. Satisfied, she then headed to spot where we feed the ducks. Though we had some duck food, neither they, nor Ellie seemed particularly interested. (Maybe that had already had lunch).

We wandered onwards and circumnavigated the lake. We were watching out for picture of rainbows in people's windows. We only saw four (and one of those was ours) but it was a fun I-Spy exercise. Apparently the challenge for next week is meant to be pictures of the sun.

As for the lock-down. The Gorse Fox saw very few people out and about. Those he did see were in small family groups and everyone keeping their distance from one another. Old Bill reported that Sainsbury's were controlling a well-spaced queue of customers waiting to enter. Inside the store they had limited the numbers and it was quite easy to shop.