We all like to look at the "sightings book" at Grumbling Stumps ... but for many many months it was "removed" due to covid .... all we had then was the internet and the "sightings board" which I have to say, is often partially wishful thinking, out-of-date and/or obscured by the "wardens" who stand in front of said boards very effectively. But a few days ago, all of a sudden, it reappeared ! An actual book that we could write things on. Or in. The best bits are the laughably crap sightings. We have great fun writing sarcastic remarks about them. In the nicest possible way. You'll be surprised when I tell you that I wrote a rather "sarcastic" thingy about all that a while ago .... and here it is for you to admire ..... I don't know about other reserves etc, but at Grumbling Stumps the book in which we scribble our sightings has been kicked into the long grass during the pandemic ... and all we have now is a whiteboard at the entrance, which for 90% of the time is obscured by the crowd of "officials" in their little shed. Plus it is miles out of date and a trifle fictitious. The problem with that is, there's no feedback. In the Pre-Covid-Paradise we could write down our sightings, peruse the sightings of others ... and best of all, we could annotate them with sarcastic put-downs appended to dodgy sightings, and actual crossings-out of preposterous entries penned by nits, numpties, prannocks and twerps . You would be amazed, and probably have been, at the gormless old rubbish people write in them. There's various categories of crap .... [a] Terribel Spelin ...... Herrin at Witterbix Hide Treecripper up the tower Gret Spotty Woopeker at Mash Hide [b] Mysterious birds Little Spotty Speckle Freckly Willow Asymmetrick Flyingjay [c] Flights of imagination Tiny penguins in the reeds Three copperlating Granites at sea hide ( Grannies perhaps ?) Jack the Snip up the channel. [d] Irrelevances Strange man up the causeway. Too many Tanagers up the reserve (teenagers maybe ?) Cut the reedbeds much lower so we can see the Bitterns [e] Unlikely events Eleven men were walking backwards to the Lower Hide Naked female swimming up the main channel. An elderly couple fast asleep in the Prince Harry Hide. I'm sure you've all seen all sorts of similar nonsense .... and it would be wonderful if you could send me some good-uns and I could add them to the list. There's also comment thing down there for you to put them on. And there's my email ........ [email protected] ...and now, 'tis Music Time ........ the Nick Cave season trundles on ...
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorThat's the author up there ... I was young and sprightly then. Archives
October 2022
|