One of the " stuck indoors but still doing birdy things" mega-list of projects I made a few posts ago was to sort out all your bird books ...... and one especially gripping project was to make a pyramid of them. And you're all wanting to know how I'm getting on .... Well, the short answer is, I'm a bit overwhelmed ..... there's far more big hefty books than I thought, and they're nearly all downstairs .... but I can't start stacking stuff stealthily straight away, because they will instantly get knocked over in our already overcrowded front room, especially as we keep getting distracted by all the images of birds we have in there as well. And because I've only tidied up about a third of the "office/attic, , I'm having a hard time trying to dig out all the bird books lurking under the billions of other books. But ... I have made a start ... it isn't quite in size order yet, and it's probably only a fraction of all the books ... but yes, it is under way..... Try not to dwell too much on all the stuff in the background. It's what us delusionary folk call "a work in progress, " Here's a coincidence for you ..... it was in yesterday's paper ... ... But it does bring in another "thing" you can do from the comfort of your own home, which you're all probably totally pissed off with by now .. living- room remote birding ... you can watch Hummingbird feeders in the USA, you can watch Wallcreepers going up walls ..... the world is your oyster. ..... .and there was also this .... Come on ... Sheldrake ..... they're Extracting the Michael ! Anyway ... pyramids ... I think mine will reach the ceiling ..... eventually. And now, a "hide joke" especially invented by me this very morning ... it is a bit contrived, and involved a bit of Spoonerism, so let's go .. One of the most unusual hides at Grumbling Stumps is the Old Top Secret War-Time Worky-Out German Coded Messages Brick Building ...... and as it was getting a bit delapidated we got that Phil Sheldrake to ring up the local builder ,,,, could he come round and have a look at what could be done .... could he pick our brains and sort out what need doing ? Well, two days later, when The Trogs entered the hide, they were rather miffed to find that the viewing windows were gone ! And replaced by bricks !!! There they were,in the pitch dark, wondering what the hell had happened. So ...here's what had happened .... He hadn't "Picked their brains" ... oh no ... he had " Bricked their panes" The mistakes are all there, just waiting to be made ! Especially if you're Thick as a Brick ... ..and here's Jethro Tull with said brick-related song, + Locomotive Breath
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