It's thundering while I write this ... I hope it chucks it down ... I'm fed up of of watering both our AND next doors' garden....... Two good sightings 10pm last night ... walking The Shredder [1] toad crossing the road ... I relocated it in somebody's garden. [2] At last, found a Swift nesting in our street... although there's been about 8 around, I haven't seen any of them going in anywhere...but this one did . There's always a bit of a problem with males staring up in the direction of bedroom windows . And 10pm isn't a good time. Anyway, back to business ... after I'd written yesterday's post I was wondering if it was in "BOLBBB" that he talked about long binocular straps .. and this in turn reinforced my theory that ALL books ... yes, all of them ... should have an index. What about these poor sods who plough their way through " 100 years of solitude" ..quite a long book ... and when they come to write an essay on it they find that they can't remember where that passage was about carrots. They have to plough through the whole stupid book again. They need an index. Luckily, in the "BOLBBB" I found the " binocular strap" bit quite quickly... but I was lucky. There's no blasted index. But I DID find out that one of his other books "Birding with Bill Oddie" does have an index ..so there. Any road up, I've helpfully made my own index to the section on " binoculars" ..it's pages 58-61 in my edition... I had a lot of fun making it, and I hope you have fun reading it. It's quite intriguing ... it might drag you in to reading the book itself. Here we go ... Adverts 59 Army, German 60 bins 58, 59 binoculars 58, 59, 60,61 big, butch 60 caps, chewing 60 rain 60 staining 60 sun 60 warping 60 distressing of 60 effeminate 60 expensive 60 little 60 poncy 60 small 60 strap, long, disapproval of 61 short, approval of, 61 too short, chin issue 61 waist, dangling down to, sporran-like, disapproval of 61 wearing, where 61 neck, round 61 shoulder, over 61 birds, rare 61 blood, staining with 60 case, binocular, over shoulder binoculars in, disapproval of, 61 losing, approval of 61 lunch, packed, in , approval of 6 roll-ups in, approval of 61 soppiness of .... 61 throwing away ... safest idea 61 coffee , staining with 60 corpses, bird, rings of 61 tideline, binocular case, in, approval of, 61 Crane, bird 59 Crane, crane 59 Diminutives 58 dozen, half of ... 60 dude, not a ... 60 wealthy 60 dust 59 Edges, blue 59 orange 59 Equipment, essential 58 Germany, west 60 Glass 58,59 Hipness 58 Leitz 60 Lenses, clean 60 great, big 59 scratched 60 Magnification x25 ,59 x 10 ,59 15p per , 59 monsters 59 mud 60 name, German 59 'nockies 59 Noddy 59 Noddy, Bill 59 Papers, morning, saturday 59 Parts, precision 59 posh 58 rain 59 rings, festooning with 60 diamond, not festooning with 60 ear- , not festooning with 61 rooms, ringing, Observatory ... 61 sand 60 SCH 59 shameless 59 soup, tomato, staining with 60 stoop , permanent 59 sun 59 twee 59 water 59 weathers, all 60 workmanlike 58 Z 59, 60 Zeiss 60 Zoffel and Schuntz 59, 60 x25 60 I quite fancy being an indexer ... I might write up and see how you get qualified. There's plenty of work for them .. I've been reading a book recently that has 3 indices, filling up almost 100 pages of the book. Cripes. Jings !! But now, on to more serious matters .... the Music Spot .. currently holding 6533th place in the UK bird-related music spot rankings. Up three from last week. Woo. It's the fine Daisybox and " Virus" .... Paroles de Virus Comme on court encore Moi j’attends. Goutte à goutte alors J’ai ça dans le sang. Je m’écoute à tord Et parfois je mens. Si je doute encore, J’ai le sentiment De chercher ton corps, Tout le temps… Et te vouloir si fort, Te vouloir, comment… Dis moi comment… Comment comment tu fais, Comment tu sais faire ça? Dis moi comment tu fais, Comment tu peux faire ça, Je n’ai plus le temps, Je suis impatient ; De trouver ton corps insolent. Et le serrer si fort, Le serrer, comment ? Dis mi comment ? Comment comment tu fais, Comment tu sais faire ça ? Dis moi comment tu fais, Comment tu peux faire ça ? C’est un petit truc à moi ; Un truc que tu n’as pas… Je suis un virus et toi tu cours, Tu te débats, En secret… Oh oh… Mon secret… Comment comment tu fais, Comment tu sais faire ça ? Dis moi comment tu fais, Comment tu peux faire ça ? Comment comment tu fais, Comment tu sais faire ça ? Dis moi comment tu fais, Comment tu peux faire ça ?… that's another of my terrific drawings for you ...
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