Hmm, it looks like I am not a blogger. I use it like I use a diary; in bursts of organisation, tailing off into apathy.<\/p>\n
First off, ebuyer suck. They have been good in the past, but this last couple of weeks I have become more and more annoyed with them. I ordered a hard disk from them and it was delivered a week late. Not only that, but I was unable to contact customer service so had no idea what was going one. Finally, they delivered the wrong thing. I got a 20GB laptop disk instead of an 80GB 3.5″ disk. Argh!<\/p>\n
The upside is, I found a really big lake<\/a> a 2 minute walk from my office. This is A Good Thing ™. I can’t believe I’ve worked here for a year without bothering to find it. Mind you, David Chan has worked here for 3 years and he only found it last week.<\/p>\n It’s called Plant’s Brook Nature Reserve and it’s a big lake with a couple of smaller ones. It’s swarming with wildfowl (and other wildlife) and there is no better word for it than delightful. I’ve been down there a couple of times now and seen:<\/p>\n * Ducks of various types (mallard and a type of diving duck I can’t put a name to) I took Hannah down there for lunch today as she has joined me in the office for the Bank Holiday. It was lovely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hmm, it looks like I am not a blogger. I use it like I use a diary; in bursts of organisation, tailing off into apathy. First off, ebuyer suck. They have been good in the past, but this last couple of weeks I have become more and more annoyed with them. I ordered a hard\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9qMPF-1m","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrigley.me.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrigley.me.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrigley.me.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrigley.me.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrigley.me.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrigley.me.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrigley.me.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrigley.me.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrigley.me.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n* Coots
\n* Moorhens
\n* Swans
\n* Great Crested Grebes
\n* Gulls
\n* A heron
\n* A number of dragonflies
\n* A kingfisher!<\/p>\n