The Significant Otter shouted up the "office" stairs and ordered some empty boxes .... and in the box-finding-and-emptying process I found a couple of things I had written on my earlier version of this blog, the one that sadly vanished. Here's one of them .. it was typed carefully on Friday, 7th December 2009. Which UK bird has three colours in its name .. if any ? What about over the whole wide world ? My brilliant suggestion back then was Tri-coloured Heron, but for some strange reason I don't think that counts. Come on now ... how can you get a more three-coloured bird name than that ? Anyway, that's actually got four colours, and if you don't believe me ... Tri-coloured Heron 3 + Red = 4 So ... are there any more ? Can you get a real "four" ? Maybe we could contrive To conjure up a "five" Then there's stuff like Speculipastor tricolor = Magpie Starling ( no mention of what they are) And oddly mismatched ones like Ploceus tricolor = Yellow-mantled Weaver. ( the other two ?) ........ so I'll leave that for you to ponder about. ............ and are 4's ..or even 5's gettable ? There's something for you to think about .... and this song has nothing to do with it .... On a totally different theme, here's a Ted Talk about how to deal with a pandemic ...... the main part of it starts at 13:20/26:35 ..... and he predicts just about everything that's happened/not happened in the CV19 pandemic so far. When I first heard about it, the first thing I said was .... shut down every plane in the world.
We were very very lucky that the UK dealt with the two who brought the Ebola virus into the UK in time .... who knows what would have happened if they had slipped through undetected and started to infect others, causing a huge avalanche of the disease? But planes continued to fly out of China and that lead to our current shambles.
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