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Thursday, September 29, 2011 at 09:44 AM
'Warm and still above ground' or 'Livin' to die and dyin' to live'
I have an evening at home for a change and the apples on Maisie's two trees have red cheeks now, and some are falling rustlingly when the winds blow.
The blackbirds and thrushes and starlings accordingly are on their annual cider binge, pecking at the windfalls. By the late evening some of them are flying unsteadily on one wing. If they were mortal motorists the police would stop them for drunk driving and put them in jail.
I have some fun with my neighbor Jimmy White across the road, a man I mentioned to ye recently. He is now hale and hearty again and restructuring his fine garden by having a boundary wall constructed.
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