Seagulls

Well, normally all I think of seagulls is that they are actually quite scary... Of course I love the sound of them, but who doesn't?

But yesterday there was a gull chick abandoned in a doorway, and the poor thing looked like it was going to starve. So we got it a can of sardines, which it ate in about 10 seconds, then called the bird rescue people.

They turned up and caught the poor thing - which had got a lot more perky having had the fish. It tried to run away in fact, and took some effort to catch.

The chick was actually quite large, and I was a little surprised that it didn't even try to take off. One of the rescue guys commented that it looked to be the youngest one they had picked up in sometime! It was, admittedly, all dark grey feathers and down, but it was also huge, not for a gull, obviously, but bigger than a 'normal' bird.

Anyway - I hope you are up and about soon, little gull, and ripping up my bins.

Richard Carlile

He argued he wanted to see "the last king strangled with the entrails of the last priest".

Good man.


Read about him here

Saturday morning

So it's Saturday morning, and it's been raining again.

Not so interesting, but true. Pah.

Cowl

A time travelling yarn which seemed to hold up the uncertainties of time travel reasonably well.

Shows the growth of characters as they gain personal freedoms that neither really knew they lacked, and under circumstances of restriction of which they are all too aware.

Along with good characterisation a good story, with carbines, explosives, programmed killers, the future of humanity suffering from our own darwinian crisis, and all that malarkey.

Recommended.

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