If You Have Time To Stand And Stare .....

  Completely 'knee jerk' espousal coming up, here. But, fuck me ....!

  I've been up all night. Body clock's shot to shit. And I have an unbelievable new bird trap out there. 

  This thing's incredible! Absolutely! Basically? I set it. I catch birds. It really is as simple as that!

  And dear god, what birds! Any fucking birds, to be honest! There's hardly a bird in the area Not wearing one of my rings now. House sparrow to Hooded Crow! I've had the fucking lot in there!

  So; I've been up, all night. 'Drunk myself sober' ~ if I ever actually got pissed? Never noticed it, if I did. And the sun's long since come back up. I've just made a mugga tea. I'll pull an all nighter, today. Fuck it.

  But, yeah! Had this trap set. Knowing I'd be awake to check it, shortly after dawn. And so I decided to let the Dogs out when I did.

  Nothing in it, yet. Plenty of birds about though. I was delighted to see the starlings come into boxes 5 and 7. Bringing food to their, soon to fledge, broods.

  Smiled at the Doglets, wandering around doing their things, as I leaned my elbow on the gate. Turned round, to look at the trap again. Shit my fucking self!

  Fucking Hare had been turning, as I turned. Barely twenty foot from me!

   She'd come loping down a hundred and fifty yards of straight track. Got within half a dozen of me. Been spooked by my movement. Now, she was loping off back to where she'd come from.

  Un fucking believable! Haven't seen a hare, here, in a few years or so now. And there's one, sneaking up on me like something out of Josie Wales!

  Talk about 'Living The Dream', eh?!