A few posts ago I came up with the phrases " Teenage Ticks" and " Good for Gulls" ...and it occurred to me when re-reading them ( yes, I read my own stuff... ) that they were smashing song titles .... I mean, there's "Cool For Cats" which works. Except it's not about birds. Our Current Cat,"Lupin Pooter", is indeed ultra-cool. And then I got to thinking about actual bird-related songs.... there's lots of "bleedin' obvious" ones, but the one that came to mind first was Van Morrison's " Coney Island." I think he's the only performer we've ( Me and The S.O.) seen two nights running ... he was brilliant, but he told the same jokes both nights. Plus, he lived not far from where The Significant Otter grew up. Coney Island Coming down from Downpatrick Stopping off at St. John's Point Out all day birdwatching And the craic was good Stopped off at Strangford Lough Early in the morning Drove through Shrigley taking pictures And on to Killyleagh Stopped off for Sunday papers at the Lecale District, Just before Coney Island On and on, over the hill to Ardglass In the jam jar, autumn sunshine, magnificent And all shining through Stop off at Ardglass for a couple of jars of Mussels and some potted herrings in case We get famished before dinner On and on, over the hill and the craic is good Heading towards Coney Island I look at the side of your face as the sunlight comes Streaming through the window in the autumn sunshine And all the time going to Coney Island I'm thinking, Wouldn't it be great if it was like this all the time. We go there almost every summer, usually staying near Groomsport. It's such a remarkable and beautiful area, and almost completely devoid of " other people " as well. Those islands up there ...there's hundreds of them over the whole of Strangford Lough, and more offshore as well.
It's "Good for Gulls" as well. ..and when I was young, "Teenage Ticks" too. Plus, up at the top end there, offshore of Scrabo, I watched a UFO in broad daylight for about 10 minutes .... if it wasn't a UFO, then I don't know what the hell it was. So there ! Maybe I'll write about that sometime ... and maybe not. We don't want those Men in Black coming round. I'm a mysterious old Hector.
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