Goslings, islands, squids and whales
Apr. 30th, 2006 01:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
andrewduckerYesterday was spent:
Feeding goslings in Lochend Park
Which me and Ed wandered round twice, admiring the new look (the council have cleared up a lot of debris and made it much cleaner) and watching the little goslings being led about by their parents. We were mobbed by various birds when we fed them some bread, and I was most amused to watch two geese warning off a dog. Oh, and at one point there were two goose pairs, each with three goslings, but by the time we left the two pairs were heading off in different directions, one with two goslings, one with four. Do geese not care whose young they raise? Or do they habiually engage in sleepovers...
Lunch at Crammond
Where, sadly, the walkway was under 6 feet of water, so myself and![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
surliminal ate sandwiches and read the papers while lying on the grass, then walked up-river to dalglir's place. Where we played with his cats and talked about a variety of things before heading back to surliminal's place to hang a couple of her pictures and watch Dr Who, before heading out to the cinema to see
The Squid and The Whale
Which was well written, well acted, well directed but ultimately left me feeling pretty down. It felt like the first 2/3 of a movie, and left me feeling that it didn't so much end as stop. And while it wasn't as depressing as watching, say, Nil by Mouth, watching characters being relentlessly messed up at each other wasn't really what I wanted from a movie.
Today will be spent
At Lochend Park again, where we spotted a basketball hoop yesterday, and are going to take a ball down to muck about in the sun with it. And then at Beltane tonight.
Feeding goslings in Lochend Park
Which me and Ed wandered round twice, admiring the new look (the council have cleared up a lot of debris and made it much cleaner) and watching the little goslings being led about by their parents. We were mobbed by various birds when we fed them some bread, and I was most amused to watch two geese warning off a dog. Oh, and at one point there were two goose pairs, each with three goslings, but by the time we left the two pairs were heading off in different directions, one with two goslings, one with four. Do geese not care whose young they raise? Or do they habiually engage in sleepovers...
Lunch at Crammond
Where, sadly, the walkway was under 6 feet of water, so myself and
surliminal ate sandwiches and read the papers while lying on the grass, then walked up-river to dalglir's place. Where we played with his cats and talked about a variety of things before heading back to surliminal's place to hang a couple of her pictures and watch Dr Who, before heading out to the cinema to seeThe Squid and The Whale
Which was well written, well acted, well directed but ultimately left me feeling pretty down. It felt like the first 2/3 of a movie, and left me feeling that it didn't so much end as stop. And while it wasn't as depressing as watching, say, Nil by Mouth, watching characters being relentlessly messed up at each other wasn't really what I wanted from a movie.
Today will be spent
At Lochend Park again, where we spotted a basketball hoop yesterday, and are going to take a ball down to muck about in the sun with it. And then at Beltane tonight.
