A good while ago I showed you one of Sharrock's dastardly "grids" from an ancient British Birds . Here it is again in all its tattered crapulous glory ... ..and here's the "instructions" .... which , to me at least, are rather short of being helpful. Even The Significant Otter thought they were rubbish. Crumbs. Anyone with ¼ of a brain could explain it better ... an example or two would have been a good idea. So ... I sort of gave up on it. But in these lockdown times, when the seconds seem like hours, I had another "go" at it .... but not the way he intended it to be done. Stuff the blasted grid ! No. I was going to "do" it my way. So ... I started by making a "candidate list" of all the " one-word" birds on the UK list.... about 70 or so. Then I filtered out all the ones that had letters in them that aren't in the grid .. that narrowed things down a bit. Then I got out my Big Box Of Hundreds Of Scrabble Tiles and selected the 8x8 =64 ones on the grid. And then I used them to make the three birds that I HAD just about managed to spell out according to the mega-vague Sharrock commands. And they were Swallow Snipe Puffin. ( 18 letters in all) That left 64-18 = 46 letters waiting to be reassembled into 6 more birds. Here they are then ...... off you go ! I sorted them out into 6 one-word birds in about 10 mins. Have a go for yourselves .... ready ... steady ..GO More on that next time ..... but now .... a "relevant" song .....
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