RSPB Birdwatch

In one hour in our back garden, we saw:
- 1 robin
- 3 blue tits
- 2 collared doves
- 6 rooks
- 4 starlings
- 3 goldfinches
- 3 sparrows
- 2 blackbirds
- 1 magpie
- 1 woodpigeon.

More details here:
http://www.rspb.org.uk/birdwatch/

I have been ...

listening to:
- lots of Al Stewart
- Dave Nachmanoff
- Marillion, Real to Reel
- Mott the Hoople's greatest hits
- La Fille du Regiment on Radio 4
- the cricket*
- Queen, The Game

watching:
- Al Stewart "live" in Grace Cathedral
- Some Like It Hot
- Sleeping Beauty on BBC2
- garden birds

burning:
- my finger, taking some toast out of the toaster

reading:
- SM Stirling, "Island in the Sea of Time"
- Pratchett, Stewart and Cohen, the "Science of Discworld" series
- Auden and MacNiece, "Letters from Iceland"
- Armitage and Maxwell, "Moon Country"
- Lindsey Davis, "Saturnalia"

going to:
- a paper on "Operational Risk" at the Institute of Actuaries.

*A colleague wondered whether these broadcasts were like Orson Welles' "The War of the Worlds": fictional reports, designed to spread gloom and despondency. If so, they're working.

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