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[byslantedlight]

I must admit, I've been a bit fed up today. I've not got the flu, I'd taken the long weekend off, and today was fun things at Stourhead. So of course I could barely walk after yesterday - gaaargh! Turns out I twisted my ankle quite badly - but I twisted my knee even worse, and it's doing rather worrying crunchy things when I bend it, which I can only do a bit. Just when I thought I might get out into the world a bit - if only to treat myself to an easter egg! And even if I could get to the GP, they'd only say to rest and use ice-packs and take paracetamol if you need it (as per the NHS website advice, and previous experience with various people!). So that's what I did. And, I must admit, sulked...

And then - I looked out my window, and (cue spooky music)... They're blue tits, and they were just lying there, poor wee dead things, and I can't begin to imagine what happened to them. There was no blood or mess or muss, and although the one looks like it fell awkwardly, the other is neat-as-you-please. There's the roof and gutter above, but no sign of a nest and I've never seen birds playing around up there. What can have happened? One I wouldn't blink at, but two of them, just lying there like that?

I realised when I moved them away and left two dry spots on the stones that they must have died before it started raining this morning, so quite early on.But that's as far as my detective work takes me, there wasn't a sign of a reason for death on their bodies. I just cannot fathom it...

Poor wee things...

So quite apart from being fed up over having pointlessly fallen so badly yesterday, there's been a slightly dark element to today - mysterious bird deaths displayed outside my bedroom window!

And to top it off, I was jangly enough from painful knees and ankles, that I couldn't concentrate to work, so it's effectively been a sick-day, and I now have the work to do sometime in my four days off. Gaaargh! I tell you, something nice had better happen tomorrow!

Hope you're having a better days - though I know there've been at least two other people with falls in the past couple of days, so here's to better days to come, and to cheering-up things!

Comments

[gilda-elise.livejournal.com]

Things are going well for you at all, are they? You've injured yourself (though at least you're finally over the flu,) and you're going to have to work on your day off! And those poor birds. It does make you wonder, why they're there, together, whatever having got one, getting the other. Very disturbing. I hope your knee and ankle feel better soon. You need some good luck!

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

They really don't seem to have gone well at all lately - but I shall be optimistic and think about how that means they have to get better. And they already are, because my ankle and knee feeling like they might recover today, I've not found any more poor wee birds, and I even wrote a Pros fic! (Actually, you might want to avoid it, cos it's set in medieval times, and I suspect you know enough about them that anything wrong is going to read awfully to you... *g*) But spending the day writing felt like better luck! *g*