Well folks, Mr. G came round to our palatial house yesterday in a great big van with a canoe on top. I just didn't ask ! I had just unwrapped my just-arrived just ordered DVD of that " Big Year" film, which had just been recommended to me by the just-about-in-a-good-mood King of Bryher. Mr. G informed me that it was an amazing and wonderful film. Just wonderful. I just decided to decide for myself. Obviously, we mostly just talked about mad journeys which, in retrospect, were perhaps just a bit dodgy... but we were young then, just full of over-confidence, invulnerability and shite ! And we were both just at a point in our so-called lives when we were somewhat short of the magic 400 and probably just weren't going to be arsed to run after it. I just haven't actually got round to WATCHING the film ... The Significant Otter had some friends round all afternoon, so I was just banished from the house and roamed the mean streets as darkness engulfed everything. I'm just hoping that in the coming weeks I will find just a tiny window of opportunity and get to watch it. I might have to do it just in little chunks. Moving on .... one plus point about the book is ..it has got an INDEX!! But, oddly, the very first thing I tried to look up in the index wasn't there. Ethel Merman ..... she just wasn't in it. It's not on ! * Nor was Merman, Ethel for that matter. Just what was she doing in a birding book anyway, we ask ourselves. See for yourselves ... here's her bit ... p97 ... " Grackles crackled and catbirds meowed, but loudest of all were the dibdibmbdbt, the Mexican thicket-dweller that sounded as if Ethel Merman had swallowed a rusty trombone." So, dear reader ... what was that Ethel-esque bird ? Or should it be, Merman-esque ? Obviousl, the weren't dibdibmbdbt .... that's just a jumble of letters I've tripetapped randoml on the tripetapper just to cunningl hide its real name. I think it's just about worked. But the good news is, ou've got everlong to work it out. I think m ( letter between x and z) has just packed in. But, er, wh ? Extraordinar, reall. * And that's not all ... on page 171, a "Mr. Pants" appears ... but he/she/it just isn't in the index either.
Seriously folks ... that's just the sort of bloke we want to know about. But loads of boring old names are in the index ... "Ponce de León, Juan" for example, on p. 155 And on p57 we will find... "Lane, Jim." Boring .. or is he ? And "Parker, Ted" gets 2 pages ... 58 AND 59. BORING ALERT !!!!!.
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