This
morning sold my first book on Kindle! So pleased! Wonder if they'll
enjoy it?
I've
been thinking about Karl's plan to rescue some of the baby boar from
the woods around here. (I knew there were wild boar in France but
didn't realise they had them around here). He says the locals hunt
them and sometimes leave the piglets abandoned. He plans find the
piglets and rear them on his land. Must remind him that I'm up for
going along and giving him a hand with his search.
Spent
all morning practising for the gig tonight. Added some new American
standards in view of the occasion (US Independence Day); BlueMoon, Ain't Misbehavin'
and Lullabyof Birdland.
I
was sitting at the piano running through some technical exercises
when a fly came and settled on the music stand. It remained very
still as I played, as if it was listening. But whenever I paused, it
flew off, returning to the same spot when I started up again. Very
strange!
Something
similar happened a couple of weeks ago. A greenfinch flew straight
into the window pane and dropped onto the sill, stunned, so I picked
him up and brought him in. I was practising the piano at the time
and, when the bird came round, he perched at the edge of the basket
as if in a trance. As soon as I stopped playing, he started to fly
around the room. I was sorry to let him go.
Didn't
take a photo of the Greenfinch but here's one of a thrush which also
happened to crash land into the window. (Thought he had a broken wing, but he was also okay after a while).
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