Sunday morning thoughts

I am so proud of myself - SO proud - that my last blog entry was exactly 300 words long! I'm not sure I've ever done that before, but I'm thinking it might be the way forward. Every posting being a uniform length, with that being 300 words each time.
As a sidenote - I wonder how much time (and indeed, how many words) I use up just talking about weird things I can do with this blog, and what challenges I might achieve, rather than actually writing something worthwhile?

I'm quite sad that we're already heading into the last week of SpringWatch. It barely feels like an hour ago I sat down to watch episode 1, and suddenly we're two-thirds of the way through it, and heading for the home straight. I have to say I have enjoyed it, despite the un-Springlike weather I've been experiencing during the series. I liked the addition of the 'SpringWatch Street' stuff - that was a nice new angle - and the little highlights they've shown from past series were nice reminders of how much the technology has developed.
I was a bit worried by the unexplained disappearance of Megan from week two. Was she always going to be involved as a guest presenter for the first week only, or has something untoward befallen her? My last image of her was of her surrounded by bats, which as we know can carry unpleasant viruses, so I hope she hasn't gone down as Patient Zero for Covid25 or something similar...

Today we are heading to an indoor bug place that we haven't been to before. Mathew has a bit of a thing for spiders at the moment, (which I'm pleased about, it's better than him being terrified of them), and this place has all sorts of weird and wonderful worldwide arachnids, both dead and alive, so he's very excited. The place looks really cool too. Philippa showed me their website and the photos are very impressive. Two rooms full of butterflies, for a start, and the promise of 'previously unseen critters from the deepest jungles and rainforests.'
Personally, I've always had a soft spot for the Madagascan hissing cockroach, so I'm hoping they have a colony of those there too.

RC 8-6-25