What A Time To Have A Garden
I started to hear birdsong again this week. Maybe it was there all along, but I swear I’ve not heard it these last few months. It’s been far from silent though between the cooing of the pigeons, the outrage of the jackdaws, and the laughter of the seagulls who’ve been flying inl…
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