Swifts!

Yes, they’re back. Which means (as Ted Hughes said) the world’s still working. You’ll have to take it from me that this is a genuine picture of one, spied today. I’ve seen swallows, too: they’re suddenly all there, filling g the summer skies when just a day or two ago, here in Lincolnshire, there were none. As you get older I think you get more excited by the nature’s annual rounds... at least, I do. As A.E.Housman said, “take from seventy springs a score/It only leave me fifty more.” In my case, take from seventy spring two score and ten. That really doesn’t leave long. So, forgive me for being just a little bit excited...