A captive audience
On the first Saturday of May, the bulk of the heavier traffic on the A1 was moving south, loaded to the gunwales with favour-decked supporters of Leicester City football team speeding to join a madding crowd packed cheek by jowl around the Wembley greensward.
Four of us headed north for more peaceful lawns. Our goal was the Peakirk Waterfowl Gardens, on the northern side of Peterborough, 11 acres of wildfowl sanctuary, where artist fowler Noel Dudley looks after 550 duck, geese and swans for the Wildfowl Trust.
Five years ago this site was a withy bed and council tip. Today the only link with its ugly past is the occasional piece of perambulator that may come to light in the course of pond clearance. In the place of rubbish, tangled acres of bramble and the withies, terraced streams,
