Everywhere is looking very pretty this morning as the gardeners came last week. I opened the curtains and watched a beautiful grey squirrel digging for something tasty which he had previously hidden. As I had put wild bird seed out last week he may have buried sunflower seeds.

Yesterday, crossing Poleys bridge to take Tess for her walk, a beautiful dipper with a white chest was sitting on the side watching the fast running water beneath and for a moment I thought he wasn't going to bother to fly off as we approached. He eventually did but only after I had a brilliant look at him close up! It would have been great if I had a camera with me but I didn't.