Well ! Where do we start ? So ...here's a cracker of a "hide conversation" I overheard a few years ago.... not something I could easily forget. There were three old biddys ( biddies?) sat at the Big Window. An amazingly Big Window actually. It was paid for with a donation from a Big Widow apparently. Anyway, it went something like this ... B1] Ooh, look at those Marsh Harriers flying over ! B2] They're circling round the lake ! B1] Oh yes ... I've never seen three before! B3] They're a bit bigger than I thought. B1] Well, they don't usually get this close do they. A brief, appreciative silence as the Greylags skimmed along the surface of the lake and then settled on the water. [B2] Do they usually do that ? !! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In case you're not sure, no, they don't. There's also another unfortunate error linked with "hide conversations." So many stories like that get passed around the ill-named " birding fraternity" it crossed the mind of a well-known editor of a well-known firm which published lots of " nature books" that they could be collected and published for the lucrative " Christmas Market". So she rang up a well-known writer of " birding tales" and put it to him that money could be made by him writing a collection of them under the title " Hide Conversations." So, he set to work at once, for he had little else to do, and after much research he sent in a weighty 400 page manuscript full of diagrams and plans. Diagrams and Plans ? What ? Why ? Well, it turned out that our well-known author had mis-heard that Book Title on a somewhat crackly line, and had written a book full of " Hide Conversions" It all turned out well though .... the book sold well and many hides were converted from soggy, crumbly, dark, creaky dumps haunted by experts, top birders, orthinogilosts, birdwatchers etc into plush, expensive, brightly-lit, comfortable children's playgrounds, amusement arcades, veggie canteens, smoking shelters and duck-spotting paradises filled with laughter, dancing and merriment and nobody with a mental age › 12. But that's progress for you. I seem to have gone off on a bit of a tangent there. And now I'm off in my Renault Tangent, the Car that Never Comes Back ! Music !! Now here's a strange band ... how many bands have dad playing guitar ? Well... I think it's their dad. Weird stuff indeed .... Cola Jet Set ... " Suena el teléfono" Oddly odd. And that's just the drummer !
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