In our daily paper a few mornings ago there was a pullout page of "Common Garden Birds". As opposed to "Common or Garden Birds. That was all very nice .... the only odd thing was, the very first thing they felt the need to tell us about each bird was some cranky old " local" name for it. Not anything useful like the size, or the sounds it produces. No. But they DO tell us how many of them there are in Britain. That's going to help your average garden bird-lover a lot. SO .... here's something to take your mind off the current heatwave ..... Here's a selection of those " names loik what they country folks do use" .... Except, of course, I've jmubeld them all up .... ..and your mission is to try to work out which goes with which. Great Tit Stare Blackbird Scrubber Starling Pickcheese Blue Tit Pridden Prai Chaffinch Pianet Dunnock Flackie Gt. Spot Comet Magpie Woofell Goldcrest Woodcock Pilot Pheasant Witwall I've done a bit of "research" about those names. I started by seeing if they were in my world-famous copy of Chambers 20th Century Dictionary , which I won by being a brilliant bird-identifier many years ago .... not that I'm showing off or owt. Anyway ... only three (3) of those nicknames were in it. Huh ! Feeble or what ? Next, I googled them .... Asking ... "What sort of bird is a ********* ? but I only found 2 of them that way . So ... can you do better than My Great Big Dictionary or Google ? Even more importantly, what's the music going to be ? Well, here's a lovely thing ... Wondering aloud
How we feel today Last night sipped the sunset My hand in her hair We are our own saviours As we start both our hearts beating life Into each other Wondering aloud Will the years treat us well As she floats in the kitchen, I'm tasting the smell Of toast as the butter runs Then she comes, spilling crumbs on the bed And I shake my head And it's only the giving That makes you what you are
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