The Lockdown Diary - DAY 44
Posted 7th May 2020 at 17:51 by Cormack
Mrs C has put out coconut bird feeders for a robin we have. I'm not a fan of robins, they're horrible territorial beasts, but you have the weight of the Christmas card industry against you in the same way you do with bears, who of course don't playfully try to steal pic-a-nic baskets but instead are several hundred pounds of killing machine.
The thing about this is that we have magpies about as well. Interesting fact about magpies - they're too heavy for their legs to support them on the rim of a coconut bird feeder. Watching them flap away as they try to maintain purchase as they peck at the fat and seeds is practically theatre as they do it in the sightlines of the middle of a picture window. It sounds like the days aren't exactly flying by (none intended) but it is an intriguing battle where at least nothing dies. Until the robin takes control, I suppose. They strike me as the honey badgers of the backyard avian world and would take out the flappy maggie before it realised it was under assault.
Recommended listening - Joy Division, Love Will Tear Us Apart
Part of the soundtrack of my teens, but on reflection yesterday is from 1980 which made it forty years old. Ian Curtis would only be 63 were he still alive. That time has got to have gone somewhere...
The Google Doodles had a cricket game on one of them. Basic it might be, but you might not see me for a couple of days...
Stay well
The thing about this is that we have magpies about as well. Interesting fact about magpies - they're too heavy for their legs to support them on the rim of a coconut bird feeder. Watching them flap away as they try to maintain purchase as they peck at the fat and seeds is practically theatre as they do it in the sightlines of the middle of a picture window. It sounds like the days aren't exactly flying by (none intended) but it is an intriguing battle where at least nothing dies. Until the robin takes control, I suppose. They strike me as the honey badgers of the backyard avian world and would take out the flappy maggie before it realised it was under assault.
Recommended listening - Joy Division, Love Will Tear Us Apart
Part of the soundtrack of my teens, but on reflection yesterday is from 1980 which made it forty years old. Ian Curtis would only be 63 were he still alive. That time has got to have gone somewhere...
The Google Doodles had a cricket game on one of them. Basic it might be, but you might not see me for a couple of days...
Stay well
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Best song selection of the blog so far C, which reminded me, I must watch Control again soon. Had a quick go on the Cricket game, but when I ran three for a push straight to the mid-wicket fielder, I had to have a lie down.
We like robins, because whenever we have a choice of path on one of our walks, there always seems to be a robin on the correct choice. Of course, there could be two.. |
Posted 7th May 2020 at 18:14 by Mister Logic
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It's not so much song selection as the song picks me, ML - it sounds odd but I skip a lot of tracks when I'm doing breakfast, for example, because you just can't scramble eggs to some songs. I had five goes today before it landed on, quite bizarrely, Dolly's Jolene which it turns out is perfect for scrambling.
TBH, it's the one I don't fail to remember on the day that I post...  |
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Posted 8th May 2020 at 13:55 by Cormack
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