A flash of colour...

...on an otherwise horrid day. We woke to swollen becks and more rain - fortunately it slowed through the morning and the afternoon has been mostly dry - but seeing the village green flooded did make me wonder what will happen to the ducklings this year.
It's been a tedious day of putting a (now ex) colleagues work right & apologising for errors out of my control (I appreciate asking for help is difficult for some - but a problem ignored seldom goes away) - but I seem to have everything back on track now ahead of going away next week & even managed to raise a laugh or two in the process.

I think the squirrels seem more active this winter - I imagine a lot of their larder stores were washed away - and with such mild temperatures they're able to get out and forage - it was great to see Whitey today looking positively chubby - surely a good sign.