Well, that's one of them ... it's just waiting for a better attempt..... you could branch out into "foreign" birds .... mind you, it's foreigners that have got us all locked into our dinky houses .... just saying ! Well, obviously there's lots of things you can do indoors in these troubled times, when you're not too busy making toilet paper out of your never-read detective stories and books about woodlice or old copies of Hoverfly News, or learning how to play Canasta or Go, .... but there's plenty of bird-related things to keep you busy for hours and hours ...oh yes ... [a] Exactly how many depictions of birds have you got on display around the house .... there's all those pictures on your walls ( well, in our house there are), there's tea towels by the sink, there's cards on the mantelpiece, there's all your hundreds of LP and CD covers to pore through ... the hours will just zip by ! [b] Now's the time to start your very own TV bird list ... well three really, the "sound" one, the "seen" one and the "mentioned" one .... wizard or what ? [c] And, of course, your Radio bird list ..... and interestingly, next week's "Tweets of the Day" seem to be a bit unusual judging by the titles .... one of them involves some folk singer or other, What ? Have a look for yourselves... [d] Then there's your " Celebrity Names" list .. like when Annie Nightingale introduces herself, or that Katya (?) Adler tells us about the current Brexit negotiations ( Adler - Eagle in German), or someone mentions top singer Taylor Swift ...... that sort of thing. I recommend Radio 3 . [e] Exactly how many " bird books" have you got ? Why not get them all out, and put them in order ... you can do it in lots of ways ..... [a] Best to worst ... then you could give the crap ones to a charity shop. [b] Smallest to biggest ...... you could make your make your very own pyramid ! I've already made a start with that one. It's good ! Back to infancy !!! [c] Which one has the best index ? Or the longest ... or the shortest. And why not look for indexing errors ... there's some examples here ... 491-more-index-fun.html [d] What % of them have NO index ? [e] How many have you got multiple copies of ? [f] Which ones do the pages all fall out of far too easily .... ? [g] What's the best "annotation" anyone's written ... and the worst ? [h] And then there's your window list. You can do a bit of "science" by making a window list for every one of your windows. Start today ! Is upstairs better than downstairs ? [i] Why not work out ...as best you can .. your bird list for every county ? [Jay] Why not try writing bird poetry ..... there's plenty of brilliant examples in my remarkable and hardly-ever-mentioned-by-me collections. 200-all-my-stupid-bird-poems-in-one-place.html 300-another-collection-of-my-ridiculous-poems.html 400-the-latest-round-up-of-my-crap-verses.html 500-yet-another-rotten-ragbag-of-rancid-rhymes.html 600-lots-of-my-poems-from-posts-501-to-600.html 700-more-rollicking-rhymes-about-dicky-birds.html And lets face it ... the world is in dire need or more and more bird poetry... oh yes. I'm sure that you lot out there have your own ways to occupy yourselves, but make sure you wash your hands thoroughly afterwards. Right ... you're sorted .... if you've got more nifty ideas, kindly let me/us know ... either as a comment, or to [email protected] It's been very sad having to shut down my seaside bar for the duration. On the plus side, I'm working my way through all the drink so as not to waste it. Music ....... we need uplifting, beautiful stuff ... ..... and we've had lots of clear nights lately ...
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