Yesterday was very wet and windy and tomorrow is forecast to be as bad but today we were very fortunate to have a dry bright day for our annual family Christmas walk and picnic (with a duck race and treasure hunt thrown in for good measure!). We met up at Anderwood car park near Burley in the New Forest and had a short walk to the River Blackwater, which eventually becomes the Lymington River. We have had a great deal of rain lately so the river that we were planning to use for the duck race was swollen and quite deep (too deep for wellies!) so having put a test duck down it we decided to use a smaller more sedate stream.
Blinged up ducks - mine was the Christmas duck and it came last in both races - I blame the scarf it was definitely not streamlined!
The test duck - stuck!
You can't beat a good bit of cheating - my duck is still back at the starting line in the background.
Proof that there was a blue sky!
Following a walk, we had a picnic lunch and got competitive over a treasure hunt - a great pre-Christmas family get together, with lots of laughing and silliness, just the job.
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