Sygnets hatch 

The swans with a nest beside the road in Kingston had 5 little cygnets hatch out.
Cob had changed his pattern of waiting in the field opposite and was standing on the roadside guarding.
I noticed a broken egg shell and Sunday I stopped and after a while he realised I meant no harm and moved back. I didn't risk getting out but to a few pix from my seat in the Smart idiot.
A blow from a swan's wing is hard enough to break a bone in the arm. 
It made up a little for the disappointment of the Union of South Africa being withdrawn and a stinking diesel replacing it on the Duchy Express. Hope they can solve the "hot-box" trouble soon enough for next week-end.