Wet and Wetter

We are lucky enough to live close to Bushy Park, one of London's Royal Parks and both last Summer and this we have been on some great Summer Activities there.

Last week we went on a deer walk, led by the man whose job it is to look after the 350 deer who live in the park. He was full of tit-bits of interesting information and I think for the first time I have really got the difference between Red:

and Fallow deer:

Yesterday, we went on a guided bird walk. The forecast was for showers, so we took the children's little rain coats, but ours are big and bulky and, after weighing up the benefits of rain proctection against carrying our coats around in the humid heat, my husband and I left ours behind. One heavy shower came and went and we sheltered under a tree. However, on our way back and about 10 minutes from the cars, the heavens opened. It was the type of rain that you think can't rain any harder, and then it finds a whole new level. I have never been so wet and fully clothed at the same time. We were dripping and squelching and sodden - even the children in their 'shower-proof' coats! The kind of wet when you can't get any wetter and you might as well just laugh.

We did see some lovely birds,

but I am sure that in years to come we will have forgotten which birds we saw and still laugh about the time we got wet through to our underwear in the Park!