Thought Deep Purple’s song was appropriate for today. I refer of course to the amazing Mark Cavendish who today drew level with Eddie Merckx for the number of stage wins at the Tour de France. Brilliant! What a come back!!!! I am always fascinated by the Tour, it is an amazing endurance event-cycling for 3 weeks including the Alps and the Pyrenees.

I know I said I would write about the Inca Trail but it might have to wait a few days.

 Drama in the Fruit Net 

Second title of the day! I meant to write about drama in our garden a couple of days ago.We discovered a young Blackbird was trapped in our fruit net, his leg was caught in part of the net. We tried to rescue but the bird was panicking so it was difficult to release him. It wasn’t helped by the parents dive bombing us. So we had bird flapping at ground level as we tried to free him while ducking as the parents attacked us from above. I tried to explain we were helping but communication was a problem! The good news we did release him after a traumatic ten minutes but we didn’t get a Thank You!