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You and me both! Beginning to wonder if it is him that is 7 ft off the ground, wearing the bird box.
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I’m in! When I was a kid, 2 or 3 of us used to camp out beside the line on Hemerdon Bank. I can still visualise the Kings and Castles hurtling down the Bank at 100mph, only a few feet away.
Well funnily enough ...Have you got a poem for the pigeons in town Doc?
... no, none of my poems feature pigeons ...
... but I have written a fairly short (as yet unpublished) book in which pigeons play a significant symbolic role. It's a book about coping with loss that's kind-of aimed at children (but not only children), written in the form of a series of letters from a young girl to her grandfather. It's set in our old house just off Mutley Plain. The pigeons are of the scraggy, untidy type and basically represent decay and disintegration. The real star of the show, around which the whole message/consolation of the story is, believe it or not, a blackbird ...
I don’t think I have a copy anymore, but Gordon Carera’s book on The Secret Pigeon Service of how pigeon’s helped the resistance and SOE during WW2 is a good true story.
She’s back…wasn’t happy at all….anyone would think I burnt the house down….she was last heard on the phone to her Dad grumpily muttering “bloody Plymouth Argyle”…. (a phrase I’ve heard her say many many times before) she’s now commissioned a new one & apparently I won’t be allowed anywhere near it this time
Anyway the birds are happy, there’s guests inhabiting it already. Up the Greens!
Probably one of the best threads ever on Pasoti (apart from promotion celebratory ones of course)!!
Fantastic!
Fantastic!
She’s back…wasn’t happy at all….anyone would think I burnt the house down….she was last heard on the phone to her Dad grumpily muttering “bloody Plymouth Argyle”…. (a phrase I’ve heard her say many many times before) she’s now commissioned a new one & apparently I won’t be allowed anywhere near it this time
Anyway the birds are happy, there’s guests inhabiting it already. Up the Greens!
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We were mad keen train spotters as kids in Yorkshire. Up there we had the ‘Peak’ class 45’s when I was a kid, a small proportion of which had names, such as Sherwood Forester D100, 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards D62 etc etc.
It made our day to spot what we called a ‘namer’ and we’d actually go into raptures if a Deltic came past.
So when we moved to Cornwall when I was 10, I was train spotting with some of my new school mates and got all excited when I saw Western Enterprise or similar. It’s a namer, I was shouting. Some local nerd very parochially and condescendingly said, they’ve all got names you idiot! Took me a while to get over the humiliation to be honest
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Just as well it was a birdhouse you decorated Accidental and not a DoghouseShe’s back…wasn’t happy at all….anyone would think I burnt the house down….she was last heard on the phone to her Dad grumpily muttering “bloody Plymouth Argyle”…. (a phrase I’ve heard her say many many times before) she’s now commissioned a new one & apparently I won’t be allowed anywhere near it this time
Anyway the birds are happy, there’s guests inhabiting it already. Up the Greens!
Looks great, but you might need to put a metal plate around the entrance (with a hole in) to stop things like squirrels knawing at the wood and making the hole bigger. They are available at garden centres.
Quiz question: What's the most common owl in Britain?
Quiz question: What's the most common owl in Britain?
Nope. The teatowl - tea towel
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