The best laid plans...

If things had worked out for me I'd have had my corrective hip surgery in early August after returning from Arizona. Unfortunately I didn't like what I heard from my latest (in a long line of) surgeon/s.

I'd provisionally booked us a place on Shetland for a week hoping I'd be mobile enough to make the trip. I obviously cancelled the reservation.

MEGA Shetland THICK-BILLED WARBLER still mid-evening Mainland below Quendale Mill

You'll never guess the date I'd booked for our first night...

24th September!!!

I had my triumph in Kent...now the disaster!