Sat' Nav' Blunder at Blithers!

Hey up folks never managed to get to Utch today so you can bet ya bin's that there's summat paddlin' around right now! I did however manage to get to Blithers for another session in the shed and it proved quite worthwhile on the bird front with a Garganey and 1st sum' Med' Gull again in Tad Bay.

Forget the birds though, today's highlight for a packed hide was a kamikaze pensioner who'd obviously not realised that his sat' nav' had taken him onto the far shore in Tad Bay. He must have had a sherry or two before leavin' the old folks home though because instead of turnin' around he decided to carry on along the shore towards the Tad and before long he was up to his axles in the mud.

He was initially spotted by top Blithers lister Manty who alerted us all to what was goin' on just as the poor sod got stuck. From then on we all forgot the birds and listened to our Grahams runnin' commentary. The poor sod didn't get an ounce of sympathy from anyone in the hide because almost to a man we'd all done the same thing at one time or another, some had even done it twice!!! Unlike moi who's never done that but did crash into one of those huge tree stumps that run along the far shore in Blithe Bay many moons ago and ended up with just fourth and reverse gears and ended up reversin' almost a mile back back to the causeway and then drivin' the eighteen miles home in fourth!!!

Anyway back to our hero who after havin' a quick look at the situation decided to start shovin' a few nice green branches under the wheels to give him some traction.

After tryin' this several times and sinkin' ever deeper the owd duck decided to have a brew which I thought was pretty cool for someone of such a mature vintage

It was at this point that our Graham(he of the big lists) started to uncharacteristically feel sorry for our hero and if it hadn't been for The Cakeman stoppin' him he'd have been down to his Y-fronts and givin' it the old breast stroke across the bay.

What struck us all watchin' was that he never once seemed to think about callin' for help, perhaps he was to embarrassed. Anyway I hope he got out eventually the soft old sod!!!!

That's all folks.