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A fund raiser to help Macclesfield Town FC. It has been well documented locally of the financial plight of my Football club (for my North American Readers ..... Soccer Club).



Only a few months ago things were so financially desperate that even starting the season wasn't a given, even now we are far from turning this around, but every event, every penny earned, every penny donated helps keep us going and it seems that month by month we are only just keeping afloat. Lots of hard work from within the club has given the loyal fans at least some hope..... anyway onto the more positive aspects.

Todays game was between Ex Macclesfield players from the Eighties, Nineties and the naughties... versus Ex Premiership players of the last twenty years that graced the greatest football league competition in the world. (Some would argue that graced is a little OTT..... depending where your footballing loyalty's lie)


Steve Burr, Phil Power, Neil Sorvel and Steve Wood may not roll off the tongue to non followers of Macclesfield Town but to the clubs fans these are real legends and an integral part of our clubs history. While in contrast Bryan Robson, Terry Phelan, Frank Sinclair and Matt Jansen are a little more well known across the footballing world.

To the game..... the result really didn't matter but the Macclesfield Town Legends won 5-2.

my 232nd UK life species.

We have had a small invasion over the last few weeks across the UK of Glossy Ibis. A couple of fairly local sightings tempted myself and Phil to get out early and try to connect with them. First off was Tuesdays sortie to Tittesworth Reservoir in Staffordshire where a lone bird had been seen for a couple of days. Constant drizzle leaden early morning skies and no Glossy Ibis soon sent us packing back over the border....... not to worry!

Wednesday morning and off in the other direction into Greater Manchester and the moorlands of Bolton for the four that had been showing well over the past week. Contrasting day this morning, clear skies, strong wind and bitterly cold.

We had to search a little as they were not in the reported location, as we were beginning to hatch plan B, Phil spotted them exactly where they had been reported. They were mobile for a while and gave stunning aerial views as they hovered close to the car before settling distantly to feed.

Kruger Park, Pretoriuoskop Rest Camp and surrounds:

We are here for two nights which now gives us time to explore a little. We also had time to book onto our first guided tour, we chose a rather early and chilli morning.

Pretoriuoskop turned out to be my fav camp of the four that we stayed at. The camp site wasn't as busy as the Satara Camp that we would visit in a few days. The bird species around the camp were stunning and seemed a little more tolerant of humans, probably due the more relaxed atmosphere of the camp. More of those species later!

Southern Kruger turned out to be a stronghold for the magnificent Bateleur Eagle. The adult birds are quite stunning, but unfortunately I only captured the adults in flight