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An aimless existence
The young blackbird remains in the back garden. It seems to have an aimless existence, (reminds me of a nephew of mine); it stands or sometimes sits motionless for a long while. I wonder what the bird equivalent of reading a book is.
I tried to see if it would eat out of my hand and offered it some currants. I slowly moved my hand towards it with the currants on my palm. The bird looked, I thought, interested and moved its head ready to take a currant. However, this was not its intention. It bit me.
Yesterday a cheerful young man came to service the extractor fan in the kitchen. It took him an hour and a half to dismantle, clean and reassemble it. The longest part was cleaning it, it was that filthy.
His appearance surprised me at first; his face was studded and his arms and legs ornately tattooed. A small spike projected under the middle of his lower lip and a large stud hung from one earlobe.
I cannot see why piercings are so popular. When I was a child I used to look at pictures of natives in my father's copies of the National Geographic. I was fascinated by their faces painted in tribal colours, by the bones in their noses, the plaques inserted in their lower lips, the rings round their necks and in their ears. Natives did things like that; civilised people did not. How times have changed.
Thought for today
You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
Will Rogers, (1879 - 1935) in New York Times, 31 August 1924
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