Still swimming...

Six months on I am pleased to report that I am still swimming regularly!

During the summer I swam nearly every day -- sometimes spending as long as 20 minutes in the water -- and there was one glorious day where I got out and lay on my towel in the sunshine without drying myself off first and it was lovely!

Swims happen less frequently now -- maybe once or twice a week -- but I am still doing it and looking forward to swimming through the winter.

Today was a lovely swim -- surprisingly nice weather for the end of October!  Here we are post-swim all bundled up -- but half an hour later I was sweating like a pig!

RIP Big Boy

Yesterday morning we went for a beach walk in absolutely horrendous weather and saw our first otter which I was quite excited about...

And then today we discovered that an otter has killed our lovely cockerel Big Boy.  And I don't even have a decent photo of him to post here. [Now updated with photo that Jane took when she was here -- thank you Jane!] He was so sweet and gentle, particularly after Mental...  So I guess we do have predators here -- we were thinking that because no foxes, we didn't have to worry so much about the chickens.  I guess we were wrong.

We are also missing two ducks, but haven't come across the duck carcasses anywhere, so no clue if the F***ing otter got them as well or if they've just gone for a wander.

Don't look a gift goose in the mouth...

Went to work this morning and came home with 17 geese that were destined to be buried in a hole in the ground...  Waste not want not I always say, and two slightly bloody hours later, we have 17 packages of pairs of breasts ready for the freezer...  This should keep us fed for a while!