There's very few other birders around my local patch ... Curly used to be there quite a bit, but I very rarely see him now. The two most regular ones were, and sometimes are, Terry and Geoff. Not their real names obviously .. I don't want them to get big-headed. And the thing is, usually, ..almost exclusively .. I only see one of them at a time. And .... I can never remember which one is which. However, I have invented a cunning stratagem. When I see one of them, I say " Who's that other bloke I sometimes see you with?" And then he might say " Oh, that's Terry." And then I cleverly say, "Ah, yes, Geoff, of course it is." And he thinks I knew who he is all along! But there's a wider problem really.....here it is... I was at Grumbling Stumps STQC reserve yesterday ... and got talking to two sets of people at different spots. I've known most of them for many years ... but in most cases I've no idea what their names are, and I never have done. It's not as if I've forgotten them, I never knew in the first place. They all know who I am. I don't know how, but they do. It doesn't bother me ... but it does bother the Significant Otter. It drives her barmy. She knows everybody's name. She knows all the names of the people in our street, and the people who used to live in our street. I hardly know any of them. Two or three maybe. But I do know the names of all the flowers and trees in the street, and the woodlice and spiders, and the butterflies and moths, and the birds of course. And in many cases, their bloody latin names as well. Within 5 minutes of meeting anybody she knows their name, where they live, and what they do, the names and occupations of all their children .... what sort of toothpaste they use, the lot. Cripes. I think men and women live on entirely different planets. And we're both "right" in our own ways. And I know why. But now. moving on to more jolly things, here a song .... it's that Facto Delafe again with another remarkable video ....
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorThat's the author up there ... I was young and sprightly then. Archives
October 2022
|