Pose or suppose in The Grove.(Click for whole picture).In the raised flower bed of a house in Sutherland Road which is all there is between the street and the front of the house, there are potatoes growing. A good use of space; no more than 3ft x 9ft, but what satisfaction of unearthing the buried tubers in a few weeks time, and several pounds of them.
Outside the fishmonger's a blackboard offers "butterflied mackerel". A miss-spelling of a mispronunciation? I ask myself. But inside all is revealed: the mackerel have been boned and the two sides opened out like wings. They do the same with prawns. A new verb then: to butterfly.
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Spatchcocked mackerel!
Yet another nice bird photo.
We've had and said "butterflied shrimp"
(prawns to you) here ever since I can remember.
Is that a tiny toad there in the grass at the tail end of the blackbird? Two miniscule pearl-like eyes caught my attention.
Crow I don't think so. Rather a worm cast. I think I would have noticed a toad and I suppose that a toad would have noticed the blackbird and the blackbird a toad.
I was so preoccupied with what I thought were toad/frog eyes that I neglected to say your photo is a remarkable portrait of the bird...a fortuitous moment for you both, I think, for now Bird is immortalized.
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