Pun based title, when I think of one

Courrier Sud was St-Exupéry's first novel. It's known in English as Southern Mail , and sometimes published together with his next book Vol de Nuit / Night Flight , both books being quite short. A few years ago it received a translation into Finnish, as  Postilento etelään . The story tells of a French mailplane pilot who on a return visit to Paris, meets up with a childhood friend he has always loved, just as her marriage falls apart when her child dies. He tries to take her away from an urban world and a husband now inimical to her, but away to his own world, which is even more alien; before they ever get there she falls ill and the dream is seen for what it is, an impossible one. The central narrative is topped and tailed by the circumstantial scenes of resting and flying in the harsh environment of the Sahara . Short though the book is, I've been saving it up since finding, with great surprise and delight at the time, this Finnish translation . Who would have t

You should be just about able to pick out the bird in this poor mobile phone picture - sorry - and identify it. The  oystercatcher  has no close relatives, so while it may have a muddy outline here and - sorry again - in the other pic, its characteristic features stand out well enough. See the bright orange beak (and legs, visible in someone else's superior photo image), and black and white plumage. Finland boasts 4,000 pairs, seen mostly on the coasts. As in Britain, or so I thought, until I saw these on the River Lune, though to be fair this wasn't so far from the coast. Anyway, to return to my self-apponted task of telling you what a bird is in Finnish, I can tell you as per the title of this post, that they call it the meriharakka . I found this quite interesting, because I knew that ' meri -' meant ' sea -' something-or-other. So what is a harakka ? The answer is that it's a magpie , so they're calling the oystercatcher a 'sea magpie',