Back at post 660 I featured a graph ..... and asked you to work out what it was about. There were a few clues sprinkled about .... well, tiny ones. .... but, just in case some of you didn't work out what it was .... here's the wonderful and rather revealing "annotated version" for you ... So ..... it took me 9 years to get my list up from 200 to 300. it then took me 6¼ years to get from 300 to 350. and it took me 9¼ years to get from 350 to 375. there's a hint of exponentiality there. And that means ... what with the graph getting steeper and steeper ... ... it could well take me another 18+ years to get to 400. .... maybe considerably more. ..... that "extrapolated" bit might easily be steeper. ..... and by then I'll be dead anyway. And you might well say ... why not make a bit more of an effort hit the 400 And I would say .... I'm not doing that chasing around any more ... I haven't been doing that for a long time. Partly because dipping gets more painful with age ! And partly because I don't want to .... been there done that. And I'm happy doing the local stuff now. Pottering about. That gets me about ¾ of a tick per annum ! Maybe I was never made for such great heights ..... This is the "answer" to a question from the future ... It is the number of sales of "The Observers Book of Birds" I'm sure none of you fell for all the other ridiculous choices .
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