Back again. I have over the last few days updated the website (vertrouge). It is now Tuesday and I am trying to work out what to do next. so the site has some more bits on. I have gone back through October and December and put in pictures. I will do December and January over the next week or so and then try and keep up to date the front page will "evolve" over time. I still think it could be a lot better and I will have to rework it entirely. Having experimented with CSS on a very small scale I think I will have to learn a lot more before implementing it fully.

I am still quite pleased with the sideways picture galleries rather than scrolling down. I wonder if the pictures should be bigger. I will have a play.

So what else is new. My brother came across from Dublin over the Weekend just gone. He came to us on Saturday along with his wife and three children and we had a good time together with various other siblings and their families.

The weather has remained cold and overcast though there is the promise that it will brighten up tomorrow or the day after. So the River Severn walks at lunch time have been dominated by the the light or lack of it when it comes to taking pictures. I have looked through much of what I have taken over the last couple of weeks and realise how "dark" they are.

Both yesterday and today were the same though I found yesterday had more to offer in terms of thins to take pictures of. The highlight being a female goosander having a tidy up and well getting herself into a range of contorted positions just to "scratch the itch".

Yesterday was also good in the beginnings of my quest to spot signs of spring. I have spotted catkins and saw this report of "early spring" on the BBC website.

My contribution is this sighting of Black headed gulls and the appearance of their summer plumage,

I know it is only 2 out of a whole flock but we have to start somewhere and this is probably it. I have seen gulls with various stages of changes in head colour over the last couple of weeks, but this is the first time the critters have stayed in the same place long enough to have their picture taken.

Anyway it is now bed time.