It's all too easy to become a couch potato. You get up in the morning and look out of the window and see a fine rain falling and think To hell with that. Next thing, you hardly venture out. A quick run down to the supermarket in the car. The only exercise pushing a trolley. Next time out, a walk to the bin. A bite to eat, some crap on the television and, hey presto, couch potato. Maybe the clock change tomorrow morning will signal the change that the equinox didn't.
Sunday did dawn brighter. We had a walk planned for the afternoon and kept our fingers crossed. Barbara didn't sit next to me in Church because she was dazzled by the sun. Her spectacles kept darkening! A very nice service by Margaret with references to the man of the moment, William Wilberforce. Everyone had remembered the clock change except for Claire. Poor lass, she couldn't creep in because she was on keyboards duty. Fortunately Margaret's daughter stayed instead of going to the City Hall to practice for the service there in the afternoon.
We hadn't been able to get tickets so we fell back on our original plans and invited Pauline and Alan for dinner after we'd had a walk together. They picked us up and we went and parked on St Andrews Quay and walked along the river into Hull. Bit of a pong by Mr Chu's but everything settled down and it was a very nice walk. We walked as far as the Pier along the river and then around the Marina and back along the river again. Dinner was planned for 6pm and we were back at 5.40pm.
Barbara and I cater regularly but it is our children and their spouses who we feed. I cannot remember when Pauline and Alan last ate with us so we didn't want things to go wrong. In the event, it all went swingingly and was very, very pleasant.
Today we did a bit of gardening in the morning and then I popped out to North 
Cave to do a bit of birdwatching and get some fresh air. If the weather stays like this, I hope to get some more soon. I added to my photo collection with the Tufted Duck here and several others. Had a pleasant chat with a guy carrying a big Canon digital and a Tamron lens. The jury is still out on whether I will ever go down that road. At present, I can still look at the birds through the telescope and then put the camera attachment on and take a few photographs of birds. If I went down the SLR route, I wouldn't be able to do that. It would mean just carrying the camera unless I got a couple of sherpas to follow me about. We were on a vacation in 2005 and one guy only had a camera and he missed out on a lot of the birds that we saw. Anyway, it's a nice enough image of the duck for my purposes.
Cave to do a bit of birdwatching and get some fresh air. If the weather stays like this, I hope to get some more soon. I added to my photo collection with the Tufted Duck here and several others. Had a pleasant chat with a guy carrying a big Canon digital and a Tamron lens. The jury is still out on whether I will ever go down that road. At present, I can still look at the birds through the telescope and then put the camera attachment on and take a few photographs of birds. If I went down the SLR route, I wouldn't be able to do that. It would mean just carrying the camera unless I got a couple of sherpas to follow me about. We were on a vacation in 2005 and one guy only had a camera and he missed out on a lot of the birds that we saw. Anyway, it's a nice enough image of the duck for my purposes.
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