Well Jill you can stop carping now!

OR
WARNING: Big fish from little tiddlers grow (And quickly)
It's taken a week but this 9 inch carp is now safely back in the reservoir. In the end (After going to the fishing lake to see if I could find some fishermen) a neighbour (who is a part-time gamekeeper) and his son came with a GINORMOUS net - but it took three of us to catch him.
I've now got to put the pond back together.
I'll miss him......!!
what else?
I felt much better today as we've gone back to the old feeding regime (1300ml of liquid 'food' into my system in 10hrs overnight). A different person, still falling over but at least I had some energy.
The female sparrowhawk did her swooshing trick today while Pam (carer) and I were having coffee in the garden; swooshed past Pam's right ear, into the hawthorn hedge and off again so quickly that I didn't see if she caught.
Ali came for lunch, Gary bringing welcome bags of kindling.
Oh - and the British Wildlife Photographer Awards book 4 arrived today - going to read it now (I had an entry shortlisted last year but missed the deadline this year).
Another interesting day at Swallowtail Barn!