Saturday 8th April. The day began when I answered doorbell in Dressing gown for the official "Handing over of the Cabbage", an important ritual when taking over the holiday responsibility for a neighbour's chickens. A quick check of the chickens later did reveal a large, freshly laid egg, the compensation of Henwatch.
The rest of the day was spent analysing the data from the Spotted Wing Drosophila survey, a Quekett Citizen Science activity from October last year which needs writing up for publication in the Quekett Journal. On our evening walk down to the river and back, we admired the silhouetted trees against the evening sky.
Today's news was still reverberating with the aftershocks of the US strike on a Syrian airport in response to the use of chemical weapons, and the hunt for answers about the motives of the Stockholm truck killer.
UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson mad a surprise announcement that he was cancelling his visit in the coming week to Russia after speaking with US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. His argument was that, since Mr Tillerson was travelling to Russia in the same week, it would be better if one voice spoke for the West rather than leaving the opportunity for Russia to play the two off against each other by mixed messages.
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