It's ALIVE!!!

Our tiny (1 x 0.5 x 0.5m) pond (#itsapondnotapuddle) has produced life!  Apparently, a year ago a mother damselfly decided to lay her eggs there.  On Wednesday, seven of her babies climbed back out and shed their skins.  Six of them then flew away; I'm guessing the seventh was just exhausted and didn't make it ;(  But I am ridiculously excited by the fact that they were there at all.  I was originally hoping for frogs, but I think the spot where the pond is is just too cold - but I'll take damselflies!

Tomorrow is Father's Day and the daughter and her fiance are taking us all out for a meal at the Albert Dock.  Hopefully, the place is as accessible as it seemed when I walked round it on Tuesday.

I've rebought the Moomin books.  I had most of them as a child and enjoyed them, then fell out of love in my 20's and gave them away.  But I'm thinking I might re-engage with them as an older adult.  I'm about half-way through the first to be published (Comet in Moominland) - but it isn't the start of the story because it references things that happened in a book that was published later.  Which is weird.  Anyway, I still love Snufkin <3

Anyway, today is a normal Saturday and the cleaning doesn't do itself, unfortunately!  See you next week, DW :)