Christine's walking & birds blog

I got my car back a day earlier than expected last week - but apparently they hadn't had the part to repair the petrol-cap cover, so today we drove over east once more to get that done. After lunch at Girvan's we walked along the river, and among the gulls and mallards there were four goosanders - a drake and three ducks.

We looked for a dipper along the edges of the river but failed to see any - maybe because it was high tide. When we collected the car I was pleased to see that they'd charged me for the part only, not for labour (we think they'd actually forgotten to carry out this repair the previous week!); and it was ready early enough for us to drive home in daylight - just.