Saturday 28th April

A beautiful sunny day today, though the hills around us were covered in snow. I had to go out last night around 9pm, and it was sleeting and very cold.
After mass this morning, wife, daughter and I drove down to Helensburgh for some shopping. Well, they shopped, I walked.
Helensburgh is the birthplace of John Logie Baird, the inventor of television, though his system gave way to another.
And Helensburgh's other claim to fame??? is that Britain's nuclear submarine base is about 3 or 4 miles just along the coast.
So as I walked today, I saw 2 things which took me back to the car for my camera. One was a submarine being escorted out of the base, and the other....at the opposite end of the scale, was a black swan.

Helensburgh sea front

Nuclear submarine with armed protection

Black swan

The black swan originates from Australia, and is not natural to Britain, though some have been brought in to ornamental gardens. Their numbers in this country are very small, so it is not often that you will come across this bird.