New Years day 2020.

Firstly,
Happy New year to all our readers!.

Had a ride down to Reddish Vale Park, but it was quite cold so didn't stay long, just long enough to top up the feeders in the Community Garden. But not much happening there, the saying mad dogs and English men got out in the midday sun might also include the cold dull days as well!.

There were three new swans on the lower mill pond, but they were asking for trouble when the resident male saw them.

Then he appeared in full attack mode powering down the pond.

And the chase was on.

The youngster was getting a bit frightened, but didn't actually take flight which was a shame as it usually creates some good pictures.

Plenty of little gulls about, bet they've never seen the sea, perhaps live on the local tip.

A nice friendly Robin appreciated some of our seed from home as the Info Centre was closed. 

A few Mandarins about, this one on the top mill pond.

This one on the lower mill pond, has you can see with him out of the water his undercarriage is mostly white. 

Here he is with his Misses 

The local McDonald's was heaving with customers and couldn't even get in to the car park, so went to the local KFC, which wasn't that busy and after trying their wares were not surprised, so don't think I'll be going there again, still what's one mans poison is another man's treat or something like that!.
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How do you know when its time to tune your bagpipes?.

What if the hokey cokey really is what its all about!.

Why don't you ever see the headline, 'Psychic wins lottery'

Do illiterates get the full effect of Alphabet Soup?.
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