Every picture tells a story plus cuckoo

Here's a discarded towel on the beach and the Scapa distillery in the background. Not sure if the story starts with whisky and then a dip in the sea, or that the sea was so damn cold that a tot of whisky was needed afterwards. You decide!

Today's excitement was a trip to the physio and a gold star for progress and more exercises to be getting on with. That'll keep me busy.

A quick addition: the BIGGEST excitement was seeing a cuckoo searching through our willow for nests. Such interesting behaviour but the local blackbird was not happy and watched her every move. The cuckoo scurried round the (still fairly bare) branches and then posed on our fence for some while; beautiful barred plumage, yellow framed eye and long tail. It's a lifetime first for me.