15 May 08

At last we have some blue sky again. After three days of staying at home (apart from food shopping once) I was raring to get out, somewhere, anywhere. I decided to pay a return visit to the National Park for Nature Studies and see what the intervening month had brought.

All the other visitors seemed to be pensioners. Though the pavements were thronging with mothers and babies enjoying the sunshine, there were none in the park, perhaps because the trail is a bit rough for buggies and there are steps in places. Still, it's possible to go round most of the paths, though no doubt it reduced the life of the stroller somewhat. Hope it lasts until Emily is walking.

It was pleasant down by the lakes, and there was a party of old people painting watercolours there. Among the reed beds there were some purple and yellow irises.

Quite a few turtles were treading water in the sun, and there were some pretty large carp prowling about, maybe picking off the water boatmen scooting across the surface.