Keeping her clutch warm.

Six eggs the man said. He’d a photograph to prove it. A volunteer worker was more interested in the swans today than me, he talked of those lost to bird flu last year, of others nearby on different nests last year that didn’t hatch. And of a black swan at a place 10 miles away, where we walk sometimes. You learn a lot when you talk to people.

Both sons and partners were on North and East coast beaches. Cold though. And by time I got home we’d blue sky and hailstones.

We went out later to pay a cheque in to the bank, (well into a machine outside a closed branch…), and to collect some online shopping items.