We awoke to another day of glorious sunshine so knew that our hiking plans for the day were good. Whilst we were getting ready to go out Jill spotted a grey squirrel sitting on top of the fencing around the vegetable plot eating its way through a whole ear of sweet corn that was nearly as big as it was. As it got towards the end of the cob it laid spread-eagled with its legs stretched out, a pose we'd never seen a squirrel adopt before but then guess we'd never s...

We awoke to another day of glorious sunshine so knew that our hiking plans for the day were good. Whilst we were getting ready to go out Jill spotted a grey squirrel sitting on top of the fencing around the vegetable plot eating its way through a whole ear of sweet corn that was nearly as big as it was. As it got towards the end of the cob it laid spread-eagled with its legs stretched out, a pose we'd never seen a squirrel adopt before but then guess we'd never s...

The day started with the lovely opportunity of speaking to both Jessica and Sally - and wishing Jill's brother Roy in Australia a Happy Birthday via email. Both activities bringing home the oddity of being in different timezones - we're behind everybody else and just getting up whilst the day has progressed beyond midday in the UK and way into the night in Australia. We've passed through numerous time zones on our travels, and experienced a time zone change on th...