The Dawn Chorus

Sunday is International Dawn Chorus Day and we are on Wollaton Park for 4:30 am. Yes really. Amazingly the park is open. Yes really. We even have a birding expert with us. Yes Daughter. And we all have our bird apps at the ready, well except me. The Lad is confused because all this is happening before his breakfast and I’m not too sure how we got away with that. Afterwards we’re all back in bed, after feeding the Lad.

Sunday is the new Saturday this week and after our joint gym we do the Plough but then Monday is a Bank Holiday, so we get another lie in but don’t this time have to get up at 4:30am first. Then it’s a leisurely walk on the park. The sun is out and so are L’s shorts. Sadly hopes to enjoy the sun with a coffee or an ice cream are curtailed by the long queues. So we head home for lunch.

We’re back at work on Tuesday and L is at home all week, so she joins in the ‘excitement’ at Sainsbury’s. In the evening I take my Dad out to make up for him missing out on a trip to the Velodrome due to the Bank Holiday.

It’s L’s birthday on Wednesday for which L is still not feeling her best and suspects she has a chest infection. Despite that she has a busy day with book club and a lunchtime 4.5k run with the Lad and I. After which I am feeling confident enough\mad enough (delete as applicable) to enter the Grand Prix series of races. Dog training in the evening is a case of do your own thing as we don’t have a trainer but this proves quite useful if like me you have an errant dog who always does his own thing.

Thursday sees L, who hates driving, with the stress of driving her Mum to an eye appointment during morning rush hour. She survives that but later requires the gentle application of wine to fully get over it which we manage to turn into a Friday night on a Thursday.

On Friday it’s my turn to take a parent to a medical appointment as my Dad has another injection scheduled on his knee. L walks over to us afterwards as she’s been visiting her Dad. He’s not good and we wonder if he’ll pull through. In the evening we go for a curry at Anoki in Derby with friends. 

(Friday 10^th May)