A very wet night has left the river in very high water with a fair bit of colour.  It's dry now with a few blue patches between dark, threatening clouds.  It looks like a showery day with a fairly light westerly breeze.

The number of club songs on the website continues to grow apace.  Some of these are real gems, full of wit and reference to what were obviously contentious issues for our Victorian forbears.  Many of the tunes that these songs were set to are familiar, but some are less well known.  It might be fun to add the music notation for these songs and compile an MAA song book?

I saw something most unusual this morning when I went out to attend to livestock.  Sitting on the goat house wall was a grey squirrel.  In the 11 years I have lived here I have only ever once before seen one of these creatures around the house and that was just after we moved here.  It seemed most unconcerned by my presence and sat watching me sweep the goat yard before scurrying off down the garden.  Whilst we do have trees around us including one giant sycamore there are very few seed or nut bearing trees that would provide food for squirrels so I guess that it's this shortage of food that makes their sighting here such a rare occurrence.  Or perhaps they know of my fondness for squirrel casserole.

Ian