The past week, 1.12.2025.

 The past week I've had a visit to Reddish Vale Country park and it was quite sunny, but also quite cold!.

First  capture was this nice little Grey Wagtail on the run off slope to the river.

 Then on to the lower mill pond where all the swan family was.

Little and Large.

Mum and Dad preening.

The recent bad weather has taken its toll here, it always amazes me how some of these trees stay upright so long with such a shallow root ball as this one.

Squirrels enjoying the peanuts

A  gadwall on the lower mill pond

A wigeon drifting close by. 

Crow with peanuts.

Lots of tufted ducks on the upper mill pond.

Heron on the far side of the mil pond.

This week me and the gang have been a couple of times to the Bridge View  Café in Ashton and on the visit on Thursday it was closed for two parties but being regulars we have a regular reserved table.

So we enjoyed the Christmas spirit of the parties,

This one was the Tameside green space people, volunteers keeping Tameside nice.   

This one when they turned up later was the Tameside ladies group. 
Of course as it was on Thursday my mate from next door Christopher was singing his heart out, to the enjoyment of everyone.

But when we went on Saturday it was a different story altogether, it was full of children and as you know these days they shout instead of talk so it was bedlam, but still good for trade for the café!.

One little girl managed to pull a cup of coffee off the table on to herself, so my first aid training came in useful and plunged her hand into a jug of water, luckily the coffee there isn't boiling.

As the weather hasn't been too good I've been jig sawing quite a bit this week here are some I've finished.

Like him or not, Trump gets things done.

Just think if our Christmas £10 from the government was indexed linked since it began it probably would be about £1000 now, but perhaps we should be grateful The witch of Westminster haven't cancelled that too!.

The one in one out system that Cur Starmer came up with should have been one ex-servicemen off the street and into a hotel and one illegal out on the street until deported!, still this government seems to give our tax money to everyone but the people who have put into it!.

When I was born, our mothers got nothing for the first child, now it seems it's going to everyone, that will soon empty the pot won't it.

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