Or is it ? A little while ago I was writing about that Severe Benson character, the one who wrote The Observer's Book of Birds .... the key thing being, is/was he/she a he or a she ? Not that it matters. But here's a ridiculous fact that I also discovered whilst leafing through its dinky pages ..... I've seen every bird in that book . Except .... the last two...... .......... now that's a mighty odd coincidence don't you think ? ........... was she taking the mick ? ........ they are in a strange order, come to think of it. and , it's a dreadful admission .... or is it ? The thing is, I could get them if I wanted to .... it would just be a matter of getting in the car, driving there, and finding them. It might take a day or two .... but there they are, waiting for me to tick them. No hurry. They're what I call "petrol-birds." We went up there on holiday once. But what with pesky twins, lack of time, and "real life", I only had a tiny minuscule little window of birding time in the key area, enough to "get" Crested Tit and Scottish Crossbill, at which point my time was up. And now, it seems a bit pathetic to slog all the way up there again. As if I'm not knackered enough already ! Hey ... I could get those now grown-up twins to hire me a car and a chauffeur to whisk me up there, to make up for them ruining my first visit by being tiny, noisy, messy, unpredictable twins. Yes ... and there were two of them. Two !! Bah ! And now, some remarkably apt music ...... I bet you're wondering what that thing is at the top ..
A MAGIC PRALINE PARTICLE. Well, if you haven't managed to work it out ,the answer is on the end of this magic link .... it will send you back about a year to post 97 ...... 97-another-way-to-cheat-in-bird-surveys.html
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Twin 1
6/22/2019 09:44:33 am
Well you do have a momentous commemoration coming up... xx
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6/22/2019 06:47:05 pm
Well, Twin 1, so I have .... hey, maybe you could get me booked into a hotel as well in case I needed more time to find the blasted things.
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