A magpie just fell out of the sky

[Groucho]

I have a solitary magpie struts about in my garden. Every morning I shuffle into my kitchen to make a cup of tea and put some bread in the toaster and there he is. Strutting up and down 'look at me, I am on my own, there's only one of me, just me here, on my own, no other magpies around here look, sky completely devoid of magpies, just me, the only one.'

Every morning I salute the magpie 'morning mr magpie, morning mr magpie, morning me magpie.'

Then I eat my toast, drink my tea pass by the peacock feathers, go upstairs and wander into the bathroom to clean my teeth as I stare into a broken mirror.

 

[Callie]

west nile virus!!!


scary!

 

[Groucho]

west nile virus!!!


scary! :

No, it's a spider bite. Stobes lives in Essex where a local chap has succesfully bread a particularly venemous jumping spider to thrive in the UKs warming climate. There is no law against such experimental breeding of spiders. Most of his attempts were dismall failures. It is almost impossible to get different species to mate, and artificial insemination is incredibly tricky. When new strains have been succesfully bread they have either not been able to reproduce or they have not been able to survive the cold. Fortunately, he latest batch have been surprisingly successful, and appear to be rapidly multiplying and are spreading across the county.

 

[Hocus Eye.]

One magpie on its own means bad luck as we all know. In this case it was the magpie that had the bad luck.

 

[19sixtysix]

The government advice on dead garden birds bird flu etc

http://www.defra.gov.uk/animalh/diseases/notifiable/disease/ai/wildbirds/index.htm

 

[Vintage Paw]

I have a solitary magpie struts about in my garden. Every morning I shuffle into my kitchen to make a cup of tea and put some bread in the toaster and there he is. Strutting up and down 'look at me, I am on my own, there's only one of me, just me here, on my own, no other magpies around here look, sky completely devoid of magpies, just me, the only one.'

Every morning I salute the magpie 'morning mr magpie, morning mr magpie, morning me magpie.'

Then I eat my toast, drink my tea pass by the peacock feathers, go upstairs and wander into the bathroom to clean my teeth as I stare into a broken mirror.

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

1 for sorrow, 2 for joy,
3 for a girl, 4 for a boy
5 for silver, 6 for gold,
7 for a secret that's never to be told,
8 is a wish, 9 is a kiss,
10 is a bird you must not miss

that is all

 

[spanglechick]

it was Jarvis!

I took an air-rifle, shot a magpie to the ground
And it died without a sound.
Your skin so pale against the fallen Autumn leaves &
no-one saw us but the trees.​

 

[selamlar]

1 for sorrow, 2 for joy,
3 for a girl, 4 for a boy
5 for silver, 6 for gold,
7 for a secret that's never to be told,
8 is a wish, 9 is a kiss,
10 is a bird you must not miss

that is all

1 for sorrow, 2 for mirth, 3 for death, 4 for birth, 5 for heaven, 6 for hell and 7's the Devil, his own sel(f)

 

[Geri]

It's all nonsense. I saw two Magpies once and England lost that evening.

Which may have caused mirth to some people, I concede.

 

[Mitre10]

Did you see it fall from the sky or just hear the thud as it landed??

Perhaps your neighbours found it in their garden and didn't fancy it stinking the place out so hoyed it over your fence!!

 

[Fruitloop]

It's all nonsense. I saw two Magpies once and England lost that evening.

Which may have caused mirth to some people, I concede.

The whole population of Scotland, for example.

 

[lunatrick]

bad ju-ju.....

 

[Groucho]

1 for sorrow, 2 for mirth, 3 for death, 4 for birth, 5 for heaven, 6 for hell and 7's the Devil, his own sel(f)

yes, indeed that was it before that children's tv prog

 

[trashpony]

Two firelighters fell out of the sky here this evening

 

[Geri]

Two firelighters fell out of the sky here this evening

On first reading I thought you said firefighters.

Now that would have been really something.

 

[Louloubelle]

It may have been struck and dropped by a peregrine falcon


They literally punch their prey out of the sky at high velocity from above

If so the peregrine would usually have landed on it's prey and taken it away to eat / started eating it. perhaps the fact that it was in a garden with a human near deterred it from its natural course of action?