Crikey ! It is now 0916 BST and I've been up from 6am. And so far I've spotted two (2) birds ... a bedraggled Robin, and an immaculate Blackcap ( f). But why ? Well, as soon as I got up. I couldn't help noticing that the "Summer" part of the bargain was a tad premature. And a downright lie as well. I was met by torrential rain, a ferocious westerly gale and puddles the size of swimming pools everywhere. And it is still doing it now. There's no birds flying by, none up in the trees, nowt. And right now I can hear a Wren singing outside . A massive increase in sightings there then. So ... I read a bit more from that "The Last Three Minutes" book to cheer me up ... this jolly paragraph was written by Bertrand Russell in one of his many widely unread books .... "All the labours of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius, are destined to extinction in the vast death of the solar system, and the whole temple of man's achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the debris of a universe in ruins... all these things, if not quite beyond dispute, are yet so nearly certain that no philosophy which rejects them can hope to stand. Only within the scaffolding of these truths, only on the firm foundation of unyielding despair, can the soul's habitation henceforth be safely built." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ So ... suitable music .... A fine version of REM's " It's the End of the World as we know it" ..and here's the singalong version ... I told you it was windy ......
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