Mrs. Wow and I took our grandson for a stroll along the very derelict Thames & Medway Canal, to which I was introduced a year or so ago by Mr. Legg-Bandage, on an especially wonderful ride to Whitstable. Last year there were marsh frogs, a nightingale, a cuckoo and some skylarks. This year there were several reed warblers. They have an especially comic song. You could almost imagine them playing a ukulele.