Thanks, Rebecca! 🐦 And my deepest condolences; that is a horrifying prospect for any student 🤢😂 I thought the Hardy/Dickens one-two punch I had in similar level was bad but oooof.
Yeah, that’s a nice poem/bird combo. We’re enjoying the warblers running through the area just now, with four different ones singing to us out in the woods this morning.
I did not I’m afraid. I’m mostly an underground birder these days: a bird noticer, I like to say. (None of these were new to my life list, though; I might have added them if they were.) l’m so glad you remember Carl. He’s very real for me, it’s odd to say.
Blue bird! So early up there in Canada. Great poem, Bryn.
Thanks, Mark! Very early up here, I think. (My first time seeing one!)
Oh wow, Bryn - great poem and lovely pics too, of course!
One of my A-level English Lit set books contained the elegiac poems of Thomas Hardy - let's just say they were NOT a barrel of laughs.... 🙄🤣
Thanks, Rebecca! 🐦 And my deepest condolences; that is a horrifying prospect for any student 🤢😂 I thought the Hardy/Dickens one-two punch I had in similar level was bad but oooof.
Oooof indeed! I'm just about over it now (it was 1992 - but that was a looooooong year, thanks to Hardy!). 🤣
That same year we read the entire 884 pages of mostly 🥱 Bleak House - I'm not going to tell you that, though, in case it 🤯
884 PAGES. Mind officially blown. (And confirms what I knew to be true about old Dickens. 🥱😴💤)
I’m with you both in your Hardy aversion. It was Jude the Obscure that did me in.
That’s a rough one, I’ve heard (from the teacher who decided to assign The Mayor of Casterbridge instead).
Yeah, that’s a nice poem/bird combo. We’re enjoying the warblers running through the area just now, with four different ones singing to us out in the woods this morning.
Thanks, Tom. Now, did you identify the warblers correctly before submitting to eBird? You know how Carl is. 😅
I did not I’m afraid. I’m mostly an underground birder these days: a bird noticer, I like to say. (None of these were new to my life list, though; I might have added them if they were.) l’m so glad you remember Carl. He’s very real for me, it’s odd to say.