What an exciting day that turned out to be. It was Amelia day but we also had Evie due to the Easter holidays, along with Bridie and Joseph, so we decided to bundle into the motorhome and set off to the allotment before going for a walk along the River Stour.
I'd done the walk on Tuesday having wanted to see if you could get from the allotment to Pamphill and so on. It is only across the road from the plot next to the housing development and such a great place to set out and get into the countryside quickly. We had soon seen nesting swans and little egrets, three in total including one preening and giving excellent views of its crest feathers, and further on there were the diving sand martins dipping into the water, a reed bunting and plenty of screeching black headed gulls.
The most exciting part though was being beckoned over by some other walkers to share in their views of an otter which was at the bank eating and diving wthout a care in the world. I was astonished at how relaxed it appeared and Maria managed to get some photos and a little video too. It was a magical moment.
We'd already spent some time on the allotment where Alison cooked us burgers in a bun and beans on toast whilst we got on with planting the second early potatoes, wilja, which will be ready by July. I gave the grass a strim, did some weeding and some other bits and pieces. It was such a pleasure to see how much the children enjoyed it too with their new patch requiring some work, digging, weeding and raking, and they set to it with enthusiasm, especially Joseph who seems to have benefitted from allotment clun at his First School in Cranborne where they held an after school club a couple of years back.
He and Amelia went to the pump for some water which they enjoyed doing and spent a good deal of time watering all over the place, just loving being able to get stuck in. You can see Joseph wielding the rake energetically and looking to get it all ready for planting soon.
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