Motherly love

Or is the one with the massive knuckle on its beak the male? Anyway, you get the point. Another long walk from me this morning & another family is swans to see.

We found a better route to messy play today. Stuff yesterday's trial run, today was the real deal. We dashed there and got there for 9:35. It was only once I arrived that a) I noticed they were testing the fire alarm so everyone was outside with no new people allowed to access and b) they'd changed the start time and it now begins at 9am. Bugger. Got let in when the alarms had gone off and L managed to do 10 mins painting before tidying up time and our big journey home.
Once again, the happy pond life saved the day :-)