Apologies are winging your way if I’ve not replied to your comments or visited your blogs recently. I’ve had a little fly in the ointment, so to speak, which is non-technical jargon for I’ve been having problems with WordPress recently and I haven’t a clue why.
I’m writing this post in the hope that it has now been rectified, and if it hasn’t, well, there’s only me reading this and you guys are none the wiser. Please let me know.
A couple of days ago, at a motorway service station, I was walking down a corridor, flanked the whole way by a glass window, whilst seeking out the Gents. At the end of the corridor a little girl was loudly banging on the glass. “Look, Daddy, pigeons!”
Her father, wearing the forlorn look of one waiting for his wife to come out of the toilet, a look I knew only too well, replied: “They aren’t pigeons, darling, they’re crows.”
As I passed them both I too glanced out at the birds.
Actually, they are not crows, I thought to myself, they are jackdaws.
And, with a certain smugness:
And I should know, being, unknown to you, the anonymous author of the City Jackdaw blog.
I didn’t say this, of course, for who was I to destroy the little child’s fantasy of her all-knowing father.
And besides, at that moment in time, I couldn’t even get City Jackdaw to work.
Let me be the first to inform you that I just logged in to find this newest post of yours in my WP reader…the restraint you showed towards correcting the classification of said bird is admirable…all in the name of preserving a child’s faith in Father.
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Think things are back to normal now.
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A feather in your cap for knowing the difference, and a second feather for not pointing it out! (we British are sadly lacking when it comes to knowing our native flora and fauna (and avifauna, and piscifauna)) OK, yes, I did have to look those up!
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Every day’s a learning curve!
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Seems to work fine now … 🙂
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🤞👍
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Oh dear. So many people are having trouble with WordPress lately. Sigh.
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Fingers crossed 🤞 it’s sorted.
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