Pun based title, when I think of one

Let me just say first that the picture below is indeed a really terrible picture . I'm not pretending for a moment that I'm providing a useful illustration of what these birds look like. The thing is, I was caught by surprise: I wasn't expecting to see any interesting birds at all when I walked up to the service area this morning, for a sandwich. The route passes the small pond where I used to see various species of birds, as written up (according to their Finnish names) in this ridiculous wildlife series previously. I only had my cheap smartphone on me, and taking bird pictures greatly exceeds the practical specs of its camera. You might want to check back through this absurd little series. Most of the pictures were taken at this pond, though any future pics are likely to be taken at the much larger fish pond over on the other side of the dual carriageway here. It just became a thing for me, when I began to spot interesting birds at the small pond now and again, other tha...

Do you still read any of the 'classics' of English Literature?  By which I think I mean any of the great monumental novels of the Nineteenth Century. I was wondering about this having just read Scenes of Clerical Life by George Eliot . I looked back through my reading record for the last few years, reading 20-30 books a year, and saw that I read Jane Austen's Mansfield Park last year, and several books by Jerome K. Jerome at various times, though they're not exactly 'great novels'. That's all. Also, there have been a couple by Joseph Conrad, however now we're edging into the Twentieth Century. So it seems I don't read 'classics' that often myself, despite having a Lit degree and being a keen reader. (FYI - there will be a few remarks about Scenes of Clerical Life , eventually, but this didn't turn out to be the usual sort of review I'd planned) Do you remember Heron Books ? You'd have to be quite mature; they were advertised al...