Birdwatching

Big Garden Birdwatch results in our garden:

3 dunnocks
2 sparrows
2 great tits
1 blue tit
1 collared dove
1 robin

A pretty fair representation of the birdlife in our garden; I think I have seen a wren at least once and recently we have both seen a bullfinch. And I'm quite surprised we managed a whole hour without any pigeons galumphing about.

Reading: The Bone Clocks

I am slightly undecided about David Mitchell (the novelist, not the comedian)'s books. I read Ghostwritten about ten years ago and loved it, bounced of number9dream hard, ground to a halt in the middle of Cloud Atlas, liked Black Swan Green very much indeed and never got round to buying The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet. But my parents gave me Slade House for Christmas and said "you really need to have read The Bone Clocks first, so I bought The Bone Clocks and have just finished it.

The short verdict is, I enjoyed it. Mostly.

The long verdict is ( behind the cut )