Here be Dragons
We've been really enjoying this series of Digging for Britain. I think J is very taken with Alice Roberts' pink hair as he seems much keener to watch it than usua,l but it has been extremely interesting. We've still got two more programmes to go but if they keep up the "wow" factor of the first four I will be quite surprised. First there was the Rutland Roman mosaic, then there were the Roman heads and in Tuesday's episode, which we watched last night, there was the Rutland "sea dragon" or less poetically, the largest ichthyosaur ever discovered in Britain. I've been on a boat trip on Rutland Water but never imagined it had its very own sea monster. Move over Loch Ness!
After what seems like weeks of gloomy weather we've had three consecutive days of glorious sunshine. I don't think I'd realised before the pandemic struck how much some sunshine can lift the mood. On Wednesday we took advantage of the better weather and went for a longer walk to a local viewpoint. Despite the sun it was actually quite hazy but our walk back through the woods was glorious. Then we hit the mud in the park, which was a lot less glorious, but quite fun to squelch through.
Woods in sunshine.
After what seems like weeks of gloomy weather we've had three consecutive days of glorious sunshine. I don't think I'd realised before the pandemic struck how much some sunshine can lift the mood. On Wednesday we took advantage of the better weather and went for a longer walk to a local viewpoint. Despite the sun it was actually quite hazy but our walk back through the woods was glorious. Then we hit the mud in the park, which was a lot less glorious, but quite fun to squelch through.
Woods in sunshine.
