It’s a cold, wet day today which doesn’t invite us to long rambles. It was more of a “once round the square and take the coffee home” sort of expedition.

Repair complete

The repair to the water leak in Claremont Square has been completed and they’ll no doubt be along one day to take away the barriers. I must say that they’ve made a good job of it.

Claremont Square and reservoir

This picture shows how dull and grey the conditions are but doesn’t tell you how cold it felt. You have to take my word for that!

Myddelton Square

Following an oft-trodden path, we entered Myddelton Square. We didn’t see the Circling Cyclist today but…

Family on wheels
Photo by Tigger

…saw this family on wheels. What amused us was that, while the front two riders were pedalling away as though their lives depended in it, the third member was apparently asleep!

Vine beginning to flower

Tigger’s sharp eyes noticed that the vine on the façade of this house had begun to flower. I couldn’t see it – perhaps you can.

Flowers in the vine

This close-up shows the flowers better though their colours don’t stand out very strongly against the brickwork.

Window boxes

On several windows in the square, the window boxes were beginning to flower nicely. I took photos of just two of them to be going on with.

Myddelton Square/River Street

It had begun to rain while we were walking round the square and so we now made for the deli.

The deli

Reaching the deli, We ordered coffee as usual and then saw an interesting-looking box with a cake inside. It was labelled as an Easter cake – whatever that is – but looked delicious. So Tigger bought it.

Oddly-behaving crow
Photo by Tigger

On the way home, we encountered a crow that was behaving oddly. Usually, they give humans a wide berth but this one walked about near us, emitting guttural crow sounds. This seemed quite anomalous behaviour to us but we did not understand it, unfortunately. Each time it bobs its head it is cawing.

Briefly on a car
Photo by Tigger

The crow perched briefly on a car, still emitting the noises. We decided there was nothing we could do and so walked on.

As I mentioned, it was quite chilly and I was quite glad to reach home.

Easter Cake
Photo by Tigger

The Easter Cake was ceremoniously liberated from the box. It was sealed in a plastic wrapper and was quite fresh.

Coffee and cake

We had our coffee and a good lump of cake each with it. It was as delicious as it looked in the shop.

Just in case you are wondering why I have lowered my standards so far as to drink my coffee out of a cardboard cup, it is because the cup I used before – my favourite – has been reassigned to tea duty. I shall have to think about acquiring a “proper” cup for my takeaway coffee!