The last two days have been overcast and cooler than the previous gorgeous autumn weather. People are now wearing jackets and jumpers for the first time in 6 months.

At the tennis club on Sunday, a beautiful and amazing natural event occured. 2 large (100+) formations of birds flew overhead in an easterly direction. I believe the birds were geese, but they were flying too high to be positively identified with the naked eye. The formations were not perfect V’s – that would be miraculous. Listening carefully, one could hear their squawks.

The geese were likely to be escaping the cold of the northern winter for somewhere warmer in the south. I don’t know if this was to be Turkey or another country. It is moments like this I wish to have a digital camera. By the end of next month I will have one…