Paul’s blog

On Saturday Évi and I travelled down to Corsham to meet Timi and Gavin, and especially to see their newborn son Daniel. We managed to find the house with no problems and stayed around three hours. Their son slept the entire time we were there, so I asked Évi that when we have a baby could we have a quiet one as well.

Next we headed northwards to my parents in Stroud. Staying the night. The next day we went to the National Trust property at Dyrham Park. Unfortunately the weather was not as good as the previous couple of days, but this didn’t really affect the visit. It was a good opportunity for my Dad and I to experiment with our digital cameras, which I did with great gusto taking around 70 photos in 3 hours! I have included one of these; the two people in the distance are my Mum and Dad.

Whilst travelling back from my parents to sunny High Wycombe, we passed the grisly site of many a dead animal on the roadside. All sorts of the animal species were lain in their final resting place beside the A40. Approaching Witney, Évi commented on this fact, and what a terrible site it was. At this very point I espied two pheasants flying from right to left across the path of our car. Seeing what was destined to happen I applied the brakes sharply to hopefully miss the bird in question. Alas it was too late, the kamikaze pheasant was on an intercept course. The next second the pheasant careered into our car bonnet, causing it to barrel roll onto the side of the road as the next statistic of the road of doom. Poor Évi did not know to laugh or cry.