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lizblackdog ([personal profile] lizblackdog) wrote2006-02-06 02:05 pm
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They tried to tame you

This entry is especially for [livejournal.com profile] cottonmanifesto and [livejournal.com profile] urbpan.

I live round the corner from an enormous shopping centre and as it's squarely between my flat and my Mum's house, I regularly short-cut through the lower deck of its car park on my way to and from there. The car park includes a number of ornamental flower beds, complete with bushes and small trees - and these are a regular roosting place for large numbers of pied wagtails.

Last night, I finally managed to take a reasonable picture of them. It's not great, but at least you can see what sort of birds they are, and if you imagine five or six more trees and a large bank of low bushes full of them and add in drifts of them skittering over the tarmac, you can see why I enjoy walking back from Mum's on Sunday nights. Especially when Spike sticks his head into a densely-populated bush and makes them all fly out.

Also, there's a green woodpecker who's been visiting the lawn at the back of our flats on a regular basis. I'm not going to try and photograph him - I can't get close enough for the camera to give me anything but a green blob indistinguishable from the grass - but it's still a fun thing to see while I walk the dogs. He's rather fearless for a yaffle and if I stop to look at him for too long he glares at me instead of flying away.

In other news, great sex apparently cures the common cold. Who knew?

[identity profile] cottonmanifesto.livejournal.com 2006-02-06 07:44 am (UTC)(link)
oooh! look at them all!! I remember them from my grandparents' house!

Those green woodpeckers look delightful!

And yup, sex is great cold therapy. :)

[identity profile] mcsassypants.livejournal.com 2006-02-06 08:04 am (UTC)(link)
In other news, great sex apparently cures the common cold. Who knew?

it slso does wonders for headaches, cramps, and mild ickiness.

[identity profile] huntingdon.livejournal.com 2006-02-06 08:43 am (UTC)(link)
They look like fairy lights. :D

Naturally - it raises the body temperature ;) A brisk 5 mile run has the same effect. If it doesn't kill you. :D
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[identity profile] lizblackdog.livejournal.com 2006-02-06 09:17 am (UTC)(link)
I know which I'd rather do... it even beats the mustard cure.


(Hmmm, sex and mustard... *makes notes for next time*)

On housekeeping...

(Anonymous) 2006-02-06 11:36 am (UTC)(link)
Lady L, I was doing some housekeeping the other night and it looks like I deleted the email you sent me with the revised Chez Liz details on it. I have Mom's, but not your current. Can you mail me again?


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