Well that's a month gone by in a flash. How is everyone doing? Anyone seen a swallow yet?

No swallows, not even a gulp. However, seen on the bird feeder today: sparrow, pigeon, great tit, blue tit, dunnock, nuthatch, squirrel, jackdaw, mouse.

...and having just popped to the kitchen I can add a female blackbird and a magpie to that list. It is all go today!

Oh look, I've got a special 4-legged furry bird that goes miaow.

I'll go out and talk to it

I've spent the day interpreting for a meeting where everyone's second language was English, and I now have a headache the size of a zepplin. Good lunch though!

(nights) My Dad's second language was English. I take your point, though.

I sympathise, used to do the same thing very regularly. Have you tried doing both sides of a German-French conversation? Imagine so, given you location. There's a reason interpreters only do twenty-minute shifts...

Talking of second languages, I need to practice using my Dutch in shouted conversations with farmers across fields. Either that or just shut up and wave when I'm on lunchtime dog walks.