Day 992

Usual Thursday shenanigans this morning. Littlies running about a playground and then off to feed some ducks, swans and, unusually, geese!

The geese returned!

We went to our usual park, with our usual friends, brought our usual sweetcorn for the birds, walked our usual route and had a lovely time.

They were the same geese, I presume, that we saw last week but there were four this time! I don’t really know why I was so excited by them but they were pretty friendly for geese and Wee Daftie had a great chat with one of them.

Waddle waddle waddle.

The other really cool thing that happened while we were at the pond was that we got to observe the adolescent swans practising flying. Taking off from the water, they barely lifted their feet from the water and made the most incredible honking sounds. They would then fly in a small crescent shape before landing again. When they landed, they did this amazing water skiing manoeuvre. It was fabulous and I honestly I had never seen anything like it. Nature is amazing.

After we finished feeding the birds, we said goodbye to our friends and went for a run around the park before heading to the supermarket (where I completely forgot two of the main things we actually needed) and our bus home.

Please meet Eve and Wall-E.

Having successfully walked our steps by lunchtime, we had a super lazy afternoon. We had a treat of a cookie while watching Wall-E. It’s such a cute film and about halfway through, my Wee Daftie crawled over for a snuggle while we watched together. Seems like we may be back on track after a few days of butting heads.

We made dinner together again tonight. In between playing with the kitchen utensils, she helped measure out herbs and spices, did lots of mixing (mushrooms, onion, carrot, seasoning and pork mince) and even trying to, purposely, break an egg! I was feeling ambitious so we made some meatballs for dinner AND I also made a chilli with the rest of the pack of mince for another day. Love me a food multitask session.

Tasty, eh?

After dinner, we read some more stories while planning our final three days of walking! Three days to go! I really want to do a special walk on Sunday for our last jaunt for Cancer Research but I haven’t quite decided where.

Can’t believe we’re almost done! Amazing.