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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!

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Ouch and ouch is about right - it does make me a bit worried about those two dead birds!

Nice things have happened today - I wrote Pros fic! - so thank you so much for your wishes, they worked! *g*