Last weekend we found a dead blue tit in our workshop which was very sad. He must have been trapped in there for a while but we didn’t hear or see him until it was too late. That same day we were paddling and Barry spotted a starling in the sea. Amazingly this bird was still alive – just. We took it to the nearest beach that was in the sun, tried to warm him up in our hands and then left him in a little bed of dead grass. Who knows whether he survived but I’d like to think so.

We went round “The Stacks” on Anglesey twice in 3 days & I was reminded that one thing I love about seakayaking is that the same place is never the same twice! It was rough and dark on Friday and we always seemed to be paddling into the wind! The tide was particularly low and paddling through an unusually narrow gap under South Stack bridge against the tide was quite tricky in swirly water. On Sunday morning the sun was out, the wind was down and we had a great clean surf in South Stack outer race. That afternoon the sun was engulfed in cloud and a bitter wind picked up – reminding us winter is definitely on it’s way.

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