Yesterday I had a long stroll around Grumbling Stumps .... I can do it now that we are without our dog The Shredder ... our no-longer-with-us much-missed spaniel . I went round lots of the bits where dogs aren't allowed. I hadn't set foot on much of the route for yonks. Eventually, feeling exhilarated but also old and knackered, I got to the the bit near the cafe (!) ( huzzah ..salvation at last !) where there's a dinky hide facing a dinky wood with loads of feeders etc. That's fine. Each to their own. But ... two of the people in there were going on about various species being " pests" ...... I'm not happy about that. Starlings got a right bashing .... and the entire Gull tribe ..... Magpies... they hated them ... and then.. oh no !! ... a juvenile rat came into view. Blimey ! That really got them going. Rats were pestilential, filthy vermin as far as they were concerned. Well, I suppose they're allowed to have their opinion. But .... all these creatures are simply getting on with their lives, doing what they're designed to do. What a clever idea ... sticking to what you're good at. We humans are the only species on Earth that don't do what we were designed to do. Well, quite a lot of the time we don't. But we do tend to revert back to basics at times .... we get into fights, we nick stuff, we cheat and lie, we consort with, er, you know.. ... all sorts. But a lot of the time, we whizz around in cars, we live in a cold country and have to wear mountains of clothes and have to shelter ourselves in honking great structures, we eat all sorts of crap food and have no link to its production, we are encouraged to be monogamous (!?Ÿ?½?!), we go miles away to work at artificial jobs, much of our lives are spent indoors .... it goes on and on.... When you walk into town, you will most likely see more people in that 30 minutes than a Neolithic man would encounter in his whole lifetime. Think about that . So .. it's not really the Starlings and Magpies and Rats that are the pests... it's US. Hey... we've not had a Welsh song for a while ... here's Ffa Coffi Pawb and " Breichiau Hir" ( long arms) ffa coffi pawb = beans + coffee + everyone ... but really it's a rather rude pun ... This next bit is the "answer" to a question I've set about a year into the future ! Wooo ! How do I do that ? Only I know.
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