October 2025
                    
                    Fair Stood the Wind for France
                                    
 
          
             
          
Parked up for the night at Bolton Abbey, I go for a walk to catch the last of the light and work up an appetite for the prawn carbonara that I’ve got planned for later. The River Wharfe is just a couple of hundred downhill so I take a walk bankside. I’ve got my binos with me for a bit of birdwatching. The first thing I see is this little fella, a Mandarin Duck! He’d got his wife with him but she was a bit more camera shy. I don’t know much about them other than they come from the Far East and are very beautiful and for me, just seeing them was very special and they made my day so much more memorable.
Clive