There I was, dogless, as I have been for many months now, and therefore able to "do" the long but interesting circuit around Grumbling Stumps, when I saw in the distance a red/black/silvery-beaked thing lying in the middle of the road .... about the size of a goldfinch. I thought it was a goldfinch at first, but when I got closer and picked it up, sure enough, it wasn't..... what do you make of it ... ? I must apologise for the crapsnaps .... as we call them round at our house .... my proper camera is sulking at the moment, so I had to use the crapulous "Handykamera" (Handy = mobile phone in German) which has ± 1 pixel . Here's a handy ( no pun intended) picture to give you time to think before I tell you what it is ... Well, it's the decapitated head of a pheasant .... decapitated very neatly too. That's my finger and thumb holding it aloft, and once you realise it's just the head, you can see the start-of-the-neck feathers sticking out at the back. So there you are. And after I'd got round the walk, very pleasant it was too, even though I didn't see the target bird, and there was Stodgy ... who was actually, by his standards, quite pleasant. Wow. He still regards me as a heap of shit, but he doesn't mention it quite so often. Heap of Mediocrity was a far as he went. I can cope with that. And then I went home. And on the way I listened to this a few times over from an ancient cassette tape..... what a gorgeous song .... Hunderttausend Typen wach"
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