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Most satisfying completion so far: target was six words and did it in two, with no repeated letters other than the run-on letter. #puzzlebrag www.nytimes.com/puzzles/lett...

Fledgeling yaffing-gale being fed on the lawn.

Today's random celebration of small things.

Well, I like communing with nature, but when one of these critters drops out of my hair onto the desk after looking around the garden, that might be a little *over*communing.

Honestly I still can’t stop laughing 😂😅🤣

First spin on the MTB in about 6 years, for a fun loop of the Caldew and Glenderaterra.

Another fecund swan-harvest down the canal. This pair generally produces seven cygnets, year in, year out. This year, they've increased productivity.

A spot of roaming in the Proto-Howgills (©️ applied-for) www.ukhillwalking.com/logbook/r/in...

When the café owner comes down the garden to tell you there's a visitor to the feeder.

Colours of Dalemain.

I saw the Attenborough Oceans film yesterday, and the bottom-trawling scenes are visions of hell. We must, and can, do better.

Mardale this week, for a scamper up Kidsty Pike, Rampsgill Head, High Raise and Low Raise. Red deer with tottering youngsters in the hollows, and a tiny scrap of Small Heath hiding in the sward.

Just an idle evening moment at Crook o' Lune bridge, as swifts hurtle slowly overhead.

Rough phone pics, but a couple of wren fledgelings being fed in the garden. Parent on the right in the second pic.