a bigger bark

I took this photo on boxing Day outside the Co-Op in Mytholmroyd. Me& Cathy were driving into Halifax. She pointed the image out to me.

......The bird was glancing nervously in their direction , freezing still and then hopping , poking and probing in the rocks for food and glancing back intensely ,fearful and yet free. As they moved closer , it hopped out into the flat , hard sand, dragging one of its wings.

 It's injured , Meg whispered.

 It's an act .They do it to lure predators away from the nest. He took another step toward the bird and it skittered up the sand ,keening loudly , dragging its wing.

 Let me try to explain.Living things , all of them , are tied together. A bird is roped in tension,it's beautiful to watch. It's part of what makes a bird beautiful , he said. She'll fake it until it's a reality if she has to, luring the predator away , at the risk of her own demise.Once it gets near enough she'll keep playing and playing until it's close in and then she'll try and scare it . That's about ninety percent of what you need in the natural world; the one with a bigger bark , a display of power, wins.

 DAVID MEANS: HYSTOPIA

 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/may/21/hystopia-david-means-review

Me & Cath will be attending this fine event on Saturday 21st January in the afternoon 1-4 by The River Calder . [Link:Details] It would be nice if you joined us.

you could do it with your eyes shut .don't you see ?

notes from an orphan

Tu Spoczywa 
Wladyslaw Zimnoch 
(14th Feb 1917-26th Dec1984)

Boxing Day 1984: Me & Cath   are in Marrakesh.

I recieve a phonecall from my brother Ziggy.

My Dad has suddenly died of a massive Heart Attack.

 Boxing Day 2016 I visit his & my    Mum's grave at Stoney Royd Halifax.

 I dont visit their graves often these days.I stand& wonder , why? The conclusion I come to is ,perhaps ,they are buried deep in my head ,not deep in that ground.
A bit of poetical nonesense.But true none the less........

At Christmas Mass......we sat with our neighbour the TV  actress     Eileen O'Brien 

  http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0639533/

who gave one of the readings. Gerald Manley-Hopkins: "The Wreck Of The Deutschland"

exit stage left to applause......but pursued by a bear ......

I went for a Grand Drink with Phil the X-Fireman & Comrade Ken in Hebden Bridge Last Night.

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Nigel Farage