Easter and my five day rest period have coincided so I’m off until Wednesday. And, as an added bonus, I also acrue two holiday lieu days. It can’t get much better than that!

We’re taking the caravan and going to Brokerswood Country Park which I wrote about here in December.

Today my duty included a Winchester to Romsey run which is normally a pretty boring drive. However, today it produced a first for me – I spotted a pure white albino pheasant. For those who know this road I saw it on the return run to Winchester in the field to left after you’ve past the bottom of the dip at Pitt and are climbing uphill again. I can’t recall what the current crop in this field is but it’s been broad beans in the past. Which reminds me of another field on this route (on the right before entering Hursley from Winchester) last year it was planted with the rather unusual borage. An absolutely brilliant blue field for a couple of weeks.