The seagulls think they are flying along the cliff top here and have failed to realise that it’s actually over my garden. So far, luckily, I haven’t been anointed with their good luck charms.
The gibbous moon has been keeping a wary eye on them as well.
I think my good fortune partly stems from the fact that the retired pirate over the road feeds the little blighters which explains why the roof of his house is white, and could account for his hair as well. His wife tends to promenade with a parasol.
I have been given strict instructions by Lo, she is a terrible Goddess, to discourage any attention from the gulls, which partway explains why I occasionally burst forth from the conservatory screaming. That and the searing pain in my shins ……….
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(Well, one way or another, it keeps the birds away. Lo,TG Ed)
Stumble It!
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I love the picture! But it’s a good thing that bird didn’t drop a bomb on yer camera lens! PLOP!
It was all very strange – the sun was very low in the sky and lighting the underneaths of the birds flying by and the moon was as bright as a button ….. ain’t nature wonderful ……….
wow you have moved in near to other British excentrics how absolutely tickety-boo
I’m hoping they can spell though ……… an early Monday ‘tsk’
ok ok but speeling isn’t evrytink…….
It’s a start though ……. [why do I bother?]
Could this be the beginning of the long-awaited alternate ending to Hitchcock’s “The Birds” ??
Re-named “The Bird” I suppose? BTW, do you know why the Americans call that rude hand sign ‘giving the bird’? …. I’ve often wondered ……..
Sea gulls may look beautiful in flight but as for the racket they make in the mornings, the mess they cause by ripping open bin bags, raiding bins and poohing on rooftops…a complete pain.
As for the word ‘gibbous’ – one of my favourites and I thought I was the only person who ever used it. Do you have favourite words?
‘Gibbous’ is one obviously and ‘pogonophilist’ and ‘osculation’. There are others like ‘fossick’ but I might have used that already ….. tee hee
Ooh, I love a bit of osculation myself, given half the chance.
Had to look up pogonophilist – couldn’t find it but did find pogonophile – a lover of beards – same thing?
I do quite like beards. Depends who they are attached to of course…
Same thing indeed …….
I’m always so in awe of the resoursefulness displayed by your lovely goddess. Where this situation could’ve been considered a negative, she found a way to not only make it a positive (for her) but to save money (on parasols)… at the same time!
She is truly, a genius.
[[Tossed in a typo just for you dear 70s... do you think he'll notice? If not, then you know he just teases you 'cause he likes you...}}
{{{thank you sis ….
… I thought I had been doing quite well on the speeling front too lol x }}}
Oh dear sis… you must read his response below. He’s priceless, wouldn’t you say?
Will I see the ‘c’ that isn’t? I’ll turn a blind eye young Fracas and of course the TG is a genius, she choose me ….
At spelling you may be a pro
But your goddesses surely do know
Your grammar’s not quite right
‘Choose’ or ‘chose’ (what a fright)
Yet we’re too kind to be telling you so!
{{Snigger, chuckle, tee hee, lol.. whee heee}}
I spend my life
in a state of fright
each time I attempt to comment
will the grammar be there
I just sit and stare
& think ‘ok I have got it’ !
My posts are fraught
as I am blonde of thought
but would you have me any other way?
*snigger*
Have you lot finished now?
To put up with you I know not how
Tis peace I seek
Not blogging freaks
Comments section I endow to thou.
goddess’s finished?
your wits are surely be diminished?
a man of your age
must surely gauge
that goddess’s are never finished !
lol
I hope you ain’t straining your brain – I do worry you now ……….
intentional typo?… but yes you do worry me always
Know you now how I feel – hee tee
One of my teachers got a good luck charm from a gull today on the play yard, i thought it was very amusing, more so when she was running around in circles like a dog trying to catch its tail. tee hee.
That reminds me of the joke about someone who gets pooped and asks for a tissue “A tissue? I think it’s flown away by now”
What a serendipitous photo. Great combination – ekxcept (hatip to fracas and 70’s) I shall now be singing “Fly me to the moon” all day long, which will upset the people with whom (credit expected) I work and could cause me to become angry with them and so lose my job, ending up as a drunken homeless ne’er-do-well whose early demise is unlamented by all.
Oh, the consequences!
Bummer ……. oh well
[It wasn't that serendipitous. There were loads of seagulls around and I took about a million pictures of blue sky - tee hee]
So you use the same photographic method as I. Get bigger and bigger memory cards, take a gazillion shots and hope one of them is usable
Shuuuuuuuush …….. it’s a secret
respect Archie ..ooops Arkwright
You can’t even read can you? ……oh dear.
I left my glasses at work .. what did he say? lol
I did the same with my teeth at B&Q the other day …… life sucks ……….
Am I going mad or is your Moon waning in the opposite direction to the one I see?
Oo – it’s a gibbous moon…what’s a gibbous moon?
I’m afraid I can’t comment on your mental health – tempted obviously – tee hee.
gibbous |ˈgibəs|
adjective
(of the moon) having the observable illuminated part greater than a semicircle and less than a circle.
• convex or protuberant : gibbous eyes.
DERIVATIVES
gibbosity |giˈbäsitē| noun
gibbously adverb
gibbousness noun
ORIGIN late Middle English : from late Latin gibbosus, from Latin gibbus ‘hump.’
Ah – perfectly clear now…