Re: Whitehaven next.........


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One summer, a whole family of them plucked out the foam of the cushions
in my hammock. I taped the holes and they pulled it off. Yes, luvem
(not) btw Don't leave your rings and things on the window ledge near an
open window. They'll steal em. Even knives have been found in their
nests.

Our windows don't open that way - they mostly open only at the top. A
magpie would have a hard job stealing anything through that gap - they'd
have to come right inside the house.

Our garden's full of birds of one sort or another. I was out there 2
days
ago, working all afternoon in the sunshine on a cane chair, and I could
hardly hear the radio for bird noise. (I was going to say 'birdsong' but
the sounds the crows and rooks make is hardly 'song'....) As well as the
blastedseagulls they are mostly swallows, sparrows, collar doves, wood
pigeons, various types of corbies (see above), blackbirds, starlings, as
well as the occasional magpie, robin, odd tits and finches.... and then
there are the chickens next door making their loud hen noises.... Did
someone say it was quieter in the countryside? Silly idea.... It's
lovely
watching little bunches of them swooping to and fro overhead. There's a
group of 5 pigeons that seem to enjoy each other's company that fly in
formation like the red arrows; there are flocks of roosting rooks at
sunset, wheeling over the big trees down the lane before settling for
the
night; the swallows whizz over our heads, zooming without slowing down
into the barn through the broken pane of glass.

ally
Ally. You must write a book. Pronto.

I know. Thank you for the vote of confidence. All I need is the time to
get
down to it. If I could just wean myself away from the internet for a few
months, maybe I'd manage it....

Would you miss me?

ally
No! Git yerself back ovver the border.....well, ........maybe,...

What you should have been doing all these years is saving everything you
write - then you take the time to sort it into a novel. Cors it's easy
giving advice but not so easy to follow it. There has been so much
interesting stuff on this newsgroup that if we all wrote a paragraph we
could have become known authors long ago.

Edith

ps: I've been to look at a car today. The place was closed so I could only
see the little darling behind all the bigger cars. I'm so excited that I
can't stop dathering. My dream may just come true - or like me Mam said -
Don't count your chickens, Edith until they are hatched. OMG -Think I'm
going to faint :-

Waddaya think? http://www.zett.no/bil__til_salgs.html?objectId=988529


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