Goodbye to all that

Wellety-wellingtons, how the time does fly by. It seems just yesterday that I first arrived here, fresh faced and fancy free. And now I’m off again, back to London to start a real job. Feeling a little less loquacious than normal (and Vicky says I’m nothing if not veritably, volubly verbose), here are some statistics from my time here which are mostly true.

Since I have been here I have:

• Seen 117 species of bird
• Seen 22 species of bird that I had never seen before
• Made 720 cups of tea and coffee
• Planted 400 trees
• Worn out three pairs of wellies
• Dumped 25 litres of marshy liquid from said wellies
• Taken 2000 photos
• Taken 20 good photos
• Written 10 blog posts
• Shifted 3 tonnes of hardcore type 1
• Erected four thousand million miles of fencing
• Successfully filmed the stoat once
• Failed to film the stoat on eight separate occasions
• Read 20 novels
• Trodden on one Kindle
• Consumed my own weight in haggis
• Built half a bench from scrap wood (Iain did the other half)
• Filled 250 bird feeders
• Said ‘it’s raining again’ 175 times

So with all this said and done (and much more besides) there’s nothing more to do but thank the fantastic staff here for a wonderful, if slightly wet, winter, and wish everyone all the very best for the future.

A fond farewell,

Andrew