Frightened Fledgeling

Chock-a-block day, after a 3am ish bedtime - bed beckons extremely invitingly...

Had our "Community Time" at our daughter and son-in-law's "new" house, followed by lunch, then we all set to work stripping and scrubbing. M started knocking out the wall in the living room, and uncovered the fireplace, which he promptly lit a fire in - much to D and S's delight.

That would have been my blip, but then came home and wandered down the garden with a glass of wine, and was slightly shocked to see an immobile bird in the buddleia. Thought it must be dead, but when I broke off a twig to get a better view, it turned its head to look at me, and realised it was a fledgeling. Heard its mother alarming away, so got the cat in the house and collected my camera...

Since then, been helping to serve a superb 3-course Italian meal to around 200 people at our church during a "Songs from the Shows" event.