Friday 21st October (What next?)


Mr. Kite looked out of his bedroom window into a white and grey sky. The lime tree leaves fluttered as they hung onto the branches by a single stem. Some of the thin branches moved up and down showing their light green turning brown hangers on.

Mr. Kite planned a trip to Polemere so he set off in the morning. Now something pleasant helped Mr. Kite cycle through Copthorne. A flock of birds would help but this help was the smell of the brewing wort at The Salopian Brewery. Mr. Kite cycled along the road sniffing the warm malty air; hmmm. Passing the steaming chimney Mr. Kite took one last sniff before heading to Polemere.

Polemere had the usual canada and greylag geese sitting in the shallow water alongside a flock of lesser black-backed gull. Today the gulls did not fly much but just sat about with their legs immersed in Polemere Water. So this gave Mr. Kite the opportunity to study these gulls in all their different stages of development examaning plumage, bills and shape.

Then it was time to see Monkmoor Lagoon. Now The Lagoon was not too busy; mallards, a cormorant and a grey heron. But in the hide Mr. Kite waited and watched a few more visitors appear.

Then Mr. Kite cycled home for a tipple of Becks. Cheer.