Us birders wot are trampling around the crustryshite to spot ,er, birds, are often so frazzled when they get home at 3 in the mourning so tanked up with emoshuns that they have trubble getting to sleep. Luckily, I've already helped you lot out with these terrific suggestions .. 73-how-birders-get-to-sleep-2.html 64-29-ways-to-get-to-sleep-1.html ...but that was ages ago ...we need something oven-ready and world-beating nowadays ..and here it is ... my patented, oven-ready " getting -to-sleep " panacea .... ... and the only thing you need to learn to "do" it, is what "ghostbirds" are. ..... it's simple .......... LBR is the "ghost" of BLACKBIRD . .. and so is CID .... BLACKBIRD ...basically, it's what's left when Hurricane Henry has blown all the other letters away. So here's what you do .... you get a nice long word ... e.g ORNITHOLOGY And you settle down in your lovely snug bed .. ..and you start off by finding a bird who's ghost is ORN ..... CORN BUNTING ( too easy) ...and then you shift it one place onwards ............. RNI ...... AMERICAN BITTERN (exotic) .. and then you shunt along to NIT .... LONG-TAILED-TIT ( a bit trickier) .... next up is ITH ..... WHITE'S THRUSH or even WHITETHROAT ..... right, it's your turn now to finish it off.. and you're probably fast asleep already. ..... but if you're not ... THO OLO LOG OGY are still waiting for your attention. And there's loads and loads of long words for you to explore ... you'll never run out.... SUPERANNUATION EXTRAPOLATION UNDERESTIMATING PREDESTINATION SCRUMPTIOUS CEPHALOPOD PARSIMONIOUS MICROCEPHALOUS JEROMEKLAPKAJEROME CIRCUMNAVIGATION COLLYWOBBLES FALLACIOUSNESS INTRACTABILITY GORMLESSNESS IGNOMINIOUS TERPSICHOREAN SCHUNAMITISM (well worth looking up in the dictionary) ( I could do with some of that!) .... that should get you to sleep ..... and this will wake you up ... ...
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