We have four baby doves in the wall-cote at the moment,
We have four baby doves in the wall-cote at the moment,

To St Neots haircut, coffee in St Neots with the family, reviewing the various interest rates and a hair cut before to Hail Weston to see Nigel to plan our forthcoming Caithness trip and home for some journal archiving. We have four baby doves in the wall-cote at the moment,

I had a great deal of trouble getting to sleep last night, finding the room far too warm, the bed hard and the blankets too heavy. In truth, I am probably getting too used to the Heronshaw bed having spent so much time there. Just down in time to see the girls go off to school and then I split the chores with Diana before accompanying her on a morning's trip to St Neots. Coffee in Brackenbury's and then, whilst Diana shopped in Waitrose, I went and got my haircut (an expensive £6.50 plus 50p tip compared with £3 at Stalham!) and then picked up the interest rates from the Post Office and Building Societies prior to doing some financial fine-tuning.

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Home to my journal for the rest of the afternoon and most of the evening during which time I successfully archived July and August and got my latest month up to date. Later on, I went over to see Nigel for a drink of port and, as well as putting all else to rights, we discussed our forthcoming shooting trip to Caithness. We have four baby doves in the wall-cote at the moment, one of which (the white one) ended up on the grass again this morning. I twice put it back up - the second time with a ladder - and hope that it survives such an exposed and late hatching.