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Reg’s Feeding Frenzy – #MuseItUp #DaffodilAndTheThinPlace

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Reg escapes from the loaf

Reg escapes from the loaf

Reg’s Dlog:

What was I doing on a bench, fighting my way out of a loaf of bread? (By the way, other brands of bread are available)

Well, we went to feed the ducks in the local pond with a stale loaf and I got trapped. I’d like to point out that hiding in a plastic-wrapped loaf of bread is hazardous and shouldn’t be tried at home without suitable safety precautions (like not letting the Old Boy put you in there, in the first place).

As it happened, we couldn’t find any ducks at all despite the Old Girl walking all round the pond to search the reeds.

But there were lots of gulls, so the Old Boy threw bread in and the Old Girl snapped away with her camera. It seemed such a waste throwing food to a lot of ungrateful gulls but when I ate a bit of the bread, it wasn’t very nice. I asked the Old Girl if there wasn’t something more productive she could do with it and she said she could make bread pudding but as she doesn’t eat bread because it’s very high in carbs, adding sugar and dried fruit wouldn’t have improved matters. From her description, bread pudding sounded a bit like Christmas pudding – or ‘Malevolence in a Bowl’ – as I call it. Black, shiny, sickly and it glues your teeth together. Give me a plate of meat any day.

Anyway back to the gulls. They obviously like bread because the lumps the Old Boy threw caused a bit of a feeding frenzy.

Gull looks back at the piece of bread he missed

Gull looks back at the piece of bread he missed

Check out the bird on the left. He obviously needs more practice at aiming. He overshot and then nearly bent double looking back at the meal he’d missed. It wasn’t long before that piece of bread had gone, as you can see in the next photo.

Gulls go after the bread

Gulls go after the bread

Gulls are so greedy. There is no attempt to be civilised.

There was no,

‘After you,’

‘No, after you,’

‘No, I insist, after you,’

‘Oh, very well but you must have the next piece…’

It was every gull for himself.

More gulls go after bread

More gulls go after bread

Anyway, there may well be a frenzy to get the Old Girl’s ebook, ‘Daffodil and the Thin Place’ this year but if you try hard, you will be able to get a copy in the end. Try the Muse It Up Publishing website here or your favourite ebook retailer.

All profits will go to St. Nicholas Church, Laindon with Dunton, Essex which is a beautiful ancient church.

#MuseItUp #DaffodilAndTheThinPlace

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