One for sorrow,
\nTwo for joy,
\nThree for a girl,
\nFour for a boy,
\nFive for silver,
\nSix for gold,
\nSeven for a secret
\nNever to be told.<\/p>\n
That is an a nursery rhyme I learnt as a kid about Magpies. How ever this morning, after a cries of sweeeetie, I don’t know what a dead half eaten one brings. That what we found in the garden this morning. (K: not in the garden, that would have been, well, still icky but this one was right outside the back door! A head and a bunch of feathers! At least the rest of it was behind the bits of wood that Homebase calls a shed. More on that later probably.) Just a bunch of feathers\u00c2\u00a0 and some wing was all that was visible at first, but peering behind the bits of shed (the shed is a whole another story which Kathleen may or may not post), was the rest. Which has now been laid to rest in the bin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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