The Hobbit Part 2....and long-tailed tits

This afternoon we went to the cinema to watch the new film "The Hobbit Part 2 - the Desolation of Smaug".

We loved it - almost three hours long, but it seemed like 50 minutes to me. I understand that Tolkienites have a few reservations as the film does not slavishly follow the book, but we loved it.

This was followed by a visit to M & S to buy some supplies for dinner and found this in the square outside the shop.

The dots in the trees are a flock of long-tailed tits, about 200 of them, who roost in these two trees. There was another flock at the other end of the square.