Chinese

Not the best ever kingfisher photo, and the wrong lens but...

Because she fell asleep on the back of the bike on the way home from the coffee after the library after the swimming, just when the awful sleet started, and stayed asleep for a bit in the porch after the bike was awkwardly lifted inside, I thought our usual weekend sleep outing would be cancelled.  

But we woke her up and filled her up with macaroni cheese, and she was more than happy to have a proper sleep.  The two of us had the whole of the outdoor bits of the botanics to ourselves, and spotted this guy at the chinese pagoda, so I was able to take some shelter while she was singing to me falling asleep, and waited around for him to get closer, which he did just after I put my camera back in my jacket to go into the glasshouses for a lovely mooch in the miserablest sleet I've ever seen.