OK, so I moaned too early yesterday about the lack of sun because it came back today!

I took myself off to the canal for a nice stroll. The pub garden I blipped a few moths ago was still under a couple of inches of water but generally speaking the floods are receeding. They have left mud and litter everywhere and the smell is quite pungent. Mosquitos abound and huge flocks of birds are picking through the fields.

My blip today was a choice between this very lovely swan preening himself in the sun or some pussy willow bursting into flower. I figured that the pussy willow would be there another day but perhaps this swan would not. So swan it is!