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I've just been to our local park. I've been thinking about going for a while, inspired by Springwatch, to see if we have any ducklings this year in the 'lake', and mum hasn't seemed like she's planning to go with my nephews anytime soon. So I took myself off. It was quite lovely, I saw ducklings and baby coots, and I did think the swans we usually have every year weren't around, but as I completed a circuit of the lake I saw them hanging out an one of the little islands with no less than six signets. The only thing that marred it was that towards the end, as I was standing watching the birds, some teenage boys came up to sit on a bench behind me, and as I turned to leave I heard them laughing and saying "Get her! Go on, get her now!". I didn't feel threatened, exactly, but it was dickish all the same.

More amusingly, as I was walking back home from the park, there was an island in the middle of a main road with its bollard knocked over, and a group of 12 or 13 year-old boys coming the other way decided to jump on it as they walked past, and mess about trying to stand it back up. Then a police car pulled up. It made me lol.

Speaking of Springwatch, you know how the other day I said there was a frisson of sexual tension between Chris Packham and Michaela Strachan? He proposed to her on Thursday night's episode. As a 'joke'. Yeah, I know your game Packham. She laughed and said she couldn't as she was already taken. It must be the most annoying fact in his life right now.