Norfolk notes - Twitch twitch
Read with alarm about spread of bird flu. North Norfolk is home to lots and lots of birds and lots and lots and lots of birdwatchers. If anyone if going to contract human variant of bird flu, it's going to be the twitchers. Listen carefully to geese as they pass overhead in huge vees, there's a hell of a racket but it all seems to be quacking rather than coughing.
One can imagine that up there a couple of Canadian Greys might be eyeing up a mate of theirs that is sneezing and saying 'I don't like the sound of Colin' before edging away from some phlegmy avian.
If migrating birds from the East do indeed pose a threat then believe that response will be very British - hoards of huntin', shootin' fishin' types will get in 4x4s and drive at once to Dover, unzip the twelve-gauge and put up a solid wall of flack. Even the Luftwaffa won't have experienced anything like it. Added benfit, you can eat what you kill and I bet two hours at gas mark six with a spoon of sage and onion up the bum of the bird will kill just about any virus you care to mention.
One can imagine that up there a couple of Canadian Greys might be eyeing up a mate of theirs that is sneezing and saying 'I don't like the sound of Colin' before edging away from some phlegmy avian.
If migrating birds from the East do indeed pose a threat then believe that response will be very British - hoards of huntin', shootin' fishin' types will get in 4x4s and drive at once to Dover, unzip the twelve-gauge and put up a solid wall of flack. Even the Luftwaffa won't have experienced anything like it. Added benfit, you can eat what you kill and I bet two hours at gas mark six with a spoon of sage and onion up the bum of the bird will kill just about any virus you care to mention.
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