Oh such rain! it woke me up at 3 a.m. and I started to worry about the ducklings - not enough to actually get up and move them ,there and then , but I collared them before taking Lizzie to Scatsta at 6.30. The family unit is now, rather reluctantly, in the polytunnel as you can see here.

Had to retrieve Lizzie later in the morning, because of the mist. When we got back to the house the rest of the guys had gathered in front of the p.t. like a Greek chorus quacking 'come backkk come outttt we love yr babiessss tooo' you can just see Mrs P inside looking out.

Lizzie is, as we speak, steaming sooth on the boat and I will have to get the poor duckies back into the hen-run for the night.

So two pictures to make up for being naughty for two weeks

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