Bill Bailey's Bird Watching Bonanza

For a surreal comedy experience try Bill Bailey's Bird Watching Bonanza on Sky 1.
It's a "celebrity" bird watching competition/quiz!

I've just watched the first episode, with my finger hovering over the channel changer, but without switching over.

Conclusion - not just for twitchers. Watch hopeless amateurs trying out bird watching activities, with amusing results

A Walk In The Park

Working late tonight, because I spent this morning going on a nature stroll in the park with Samwise' pre-school (that's a nursery school for us old-fashioned folk).

Despite having a group of about 20 very noisy 2-3 year olds charging around the park we managed to spot several magpies, fed some geese, ducks and pigeons, saw a moor-hen and terrorised a squirrel.

Samwise was looking for ants, peering through a large magnifying glass. I think I'll hold back on showing the burning properties of a magnifying glass for a while. He switched to a pair of binoculars, with which he managed to spot a kite trapped in a tree. Well and truly stuck, no way could anybody get it down.

Headed for the picnic area to discover a gang of green-clad park rangers moving the benches around. We'd all sat down at one bench, and were about to move to another when they carried it away almost from underneath us to a spot further away.

They then came back for the bench that everybody was sitting at - only to be told by several irate parents and nursery-school teachers to go away and move the bench when we'd finished with it.

Cup of coffee and a sneaky Kit-Kat (so the health conscious kiddies couldn't see us scoffing chocolate). Then off to the Linda McCartney playground for swings, slides and roundabouts, before heading home with a tired Samwise.

Weather was just right for us, so quite a pleasant morning before work. Tipping it down now.