Thank you keberoxu, we're all rather chuffed about Norwich City FC going up. Just hoping they don't go back down again as they did last time.
Here the weather has been very very cold, with night frosts, tons of rain (much-needed, but enough is enough!) and high winds, so all the birds are behind with their nesting. So no swans tottering up and down the village street as yet. After the death of BamBam the deer, we don't need any more sorrow with lovely swans and/or cygnets getting squashed on the road by cattle-feed lorries.
But there are lambs and calves in the fields, which are lovely to see.
And my neighbour, the veterinary nurse, who has a flock of rescued sheep, took in another poor ewe, a 'culled' one (a farmer had decided to have her slaughtered as she was 'elderly and past lambing') When the poor old thing arrived, she promptly lambed and produced a sweet little baby! He's been named Bertie. (All her sheep have names. One of them, a very cheeky and pushy Shetland sheep, is called Shitland!!)