The Crow Called By,

as I was writing the blog,

 something had obviously ruffled one of his feathers!

  as Diana was going into work late,

we decided on a English breakfast, after Diana left for work I spent some time cleaning the aquarium, I was waiting for a delivery, so feet up to watch a couple of films in the afternoon,

firstly Automata, a thoroughly enjoyable film looking into the future, great special effects, actors and story line,

I followed that with Ironclad, a gory look at a part of British history centered around Rochester Castle in the Medway town, which we visited some time ago, the film, whilst not being historically accurate did in fact feature the mining of the castle, which did bring one corner of the castle down, using 40 pigs to do it,

 the parcel I was waiting in for arrived and it was soon time for my evening meal, a read and a pre-meal sherry,

 the flowers looking nice,

 we both particularly like the pinks,

 whist looking out of the window I decided to take a quick photograph of the orchid that had been putting on such a good show, the main stem now dying,

 but the second stem was just starting to flower,

 my meal for the evening some cold cuts with onions and gherkins,

followed by a sandwich. but not just any old sandwich.

 Diana had made me a cockle sandwich, delicious! 

 taking the plate to the kitchen a strange sight,

 for some reason I never expect to see ducks on roof tops, but there he was,

 the aquarium looking nice now that the water had cleared,

 one of the shrimps had shed its outer shell, which is how they grow, 

 I read and listened to music until about 10.00 in the evening, when Diana called,

so off to the bus stop and back again, we watched one episode of New Tricks, then for us we were off to bed.

We Had A Quiet Day,

in the morning looking out of the back window,

 I noticed a visitor on a neighbour's roof,

 the male duck was back,

I threw a few peanuts for him, but he did not see them, in the afternoon we watched a few quiz shows, until it was time for our evening meal, which we followed with three games of cribbage, I tried desperately to beat Diana 3 - 0 but it was not to be, the last game going to Diana, 

for the first of our evening films we watched Young Sherlock Holmes, which Diana had not seen before, a great 'Boys Own', adventure, aimed at kids but a bit scary in places hence its PG-13 classification, the game is afoot!

we rounded the evening of with the second film of the night that Diana had not seen before, Aliens, another scary one from deep space, and with the end of that we were off to bed.

As I Was Posting The Blog,

the ducks arrived,

 I am guessing it is the same pair,

 well that look like the same pair that has been here before,

 next a surprise,

 the crow had landed back on the window sill, but made a much better landing, as I hardly heard him,

 next thing the fox arrived, 

 but this did not seem to be the same one as before,

 the face looked the same,

 but I felt sure,

 the one I saw yesterday did not have so much white on his tail, 

  but there it is,

 afternoon tea and cake,

 then mystery solved,

 there were two foxes, 

as it happens I remembered a number of weeks ago, seeing two of them playing in the back garden as the light was fading, after our evening meal it was feet up for a couple of quiz shows, which we followed with one from Poirot, one from New Tricks and rounded the evening off with a Have I Got News For You, by now midnight was approaching so we were off to bed.

As I Was Typing The First Post,

I heard a faint quaking,

 the ducks were back,

 a few peanuts later, 

 the drake was standing guard,

 he eat very few peanuts, 

 whilst his mate continuously tucked in, considering that these were split peanuts I was surprised at how the ducks could tell the difference between pieces of gravel and the nuts,

 next pick up the ones that had landed on the grass, and they were off,

 now for our first venture outside since the lockdown began, firstly to Sainsburys in Sydenham, a long queue around 2 sides of the car park, but Diana was soon inside, we bought pretty much everything there, except kidney tinned beans, Diana was going to make a chilli con carne, and lettuce and a couple of other things on our list,

 so into Waitrose next, the queue went past the front of the building 3 times in segregated rows, 

and then up one side of the car park, but again we were fairly quickly inside, the good news was that there was only one person in the check out line in front of us, people were being let in as other customers were leaving, giving up their trolly each one was sanitized by a member of staff, arriving home it was feet up for the afternoon, for a coffee and watching a few quiz shows before our evening meal, 

afterwards it was a couple of games of Monopoly, which ended in a one all draw, feet up again for Dorian Grey, I have to admit the first time we watched the film a few years ago I was totally underwhelmed, but seeing it again I thought it a lot better, I guess as with fine wine and good cheese it must have matured with age! 

we rounded off the evening with Virus, an alien virus takes over a ships computer, making terminator like machines to kill the crew, who were having none of it, with the end of that we were off to bed.

First Thing In The Morning,

I threw a few peanut outside for the birds,

 normally cows and magpies appear, but today a pair of ducks were waiting,

 so now we have quacks as well as the crows and magpies making their presence known,

on to Sunday lunch, for today a starter of vegetable soup,

 'Cheers!',

 for the wine, 

 a few Fridays ago Steve very kindly brought a nice bottle of red around, 

 which went so nicely with our main course,

 of roast pork, lots of gravy for Diana,

 none for myself,

 another quick 'Cheers!', we decided against a dessert, we were both full to bursting, we spent the afternoon at the table chatting away and listening to music, late in afternoon we had a game of Monopoly, I will not say who won, but Diana lost, just after that looking out of the window, I noticed something I thought was slightly strange,

 as far as I was concerned ducks fly, swim and walk, they do not perch on trees,

 or on the tops of roofs, but here they were, the pair of ducks were back,

so a handful of peanuts out of the window,

 and down they flew, 

I zoomed in,

 having eaten all of the ones on the gravel, 

 it was on to the grass,

I wonder if they will be back tomorrow? in the evening we watched Have I Got News For You and a couple from the Poirot Box, and with end of those we were off to bed.