The local feluccas have some smart new sails featuring a distinctive pattern in 3 different colours.
The gezira in mid-river was hardly visible, the Nile being as high as I have ever seen it.
The owners have done a fair amount of tidying up, so finally the trunk of a dom-palm that they cut down 8 years ago has been removed. A number of mango trees that provided welcome shade near the pool have also gone. Make your own mind up whether you think that it is an improvement.
Next door continue to cultivate their vegetable garden, divided into squares and with mango trees for shade. Their bread oven is still their, but there are fewer domestic animals. I didn't see and hens or hear the buffalo. No rabbits, a couple of dogs, no cats.
Very little bird life so no twitter feed today.