I’m afraid that the ducks eggs and nest has gone. Something dug under the fence from the next door garden and swiped all the eggs. Only 2 days to go before they hatched as well :-(
Update
The neighbour thinks it was a fox, although maybe it was the neighbour’s dog. You can see the hole and the broken nest here:
and from the other side of the fence:
There was no sign of any eggs or even egg shells.
Mother was OK, but shaken. She sat in the garden for about half an hour like this, just doing nothing:
I bought a Crookes radiometer from these people yesterday. Today the sun came out for just a few minutes and it actually works. I was fascinated by these things at school, but I’m also disappointed to find out that they don’t work because of “light pressure”, which is what my physics teacher told me.
This video is actually about my level in Japanese, in that I can watch it and understand almost all of what the narrator is trying to say. I understand the sentences, but just what is going on?