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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

[merentha13.livejournal.com]

Ouch and ouch! Ankle and knee - and before a holiday weekend, too. You've been suffering some bad luck lately [and I'm not even going to venture a guess as to what the dead birds mean - gives me the shivers.]

I'll be sending wishes your way for something nice to happen for you tomorrow! Rest and take your pain meds. Hope you're are feeling better soon.

[etain-antrim.livejournal.com]

Poor birds! And poor you! So sorry to hear that you're distracted badly enough to have to work on your miniature-holiday. But my best wishes for a good Easter anyway. Here's hoping you get out and find some fun.

[loxleyprince.livejournal.com]

Poor baby and poor birdies! *hugs you* I hope the paracetemol helps your knee. Can't even begin to hazard a guess about the blue tits other than to say that there's probably a plot there involving some sort of covert pulse weapon possibly stolen from the military if it's canon-era, or Old Magic if it's AU and, sad though it is, maybe it was best they went together so neither had to live without the other. *hugs you some more*

I'm sorry I can't help with an Easter egg, but I can give you this, which I made using one of your pictures as the backdrop. I hope you like it :-)

[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!

[snailbones.livejournal.com]

You poor poor love - you're not having much luck or much fun. So not fair. /o\ I did wonder if you hadn't done yourself more damage than you were letting on - ouch! *hugs carefully*

And the poor wee birds! Poison, I wonder? Not a nice thing to find, in any case.

I hope the weekend perks up vastly for you.

[siskiou.livejournal.com]

How sad! What could have happened to the little birds?
And I'm sorry you hurt yourself! Wishing you a speedy recovery and that the work you have to catch up on flows easily!

We have the MG back and are spending a couple of days at Mil's, before making the trip back home.

[unbelievable2.livejournal.com]

You said you saw from your window. Were they below the window? Birds can fly headlong into windows and frequently with such force that they break necks. They might also bounce back a bit so they may be a little way off the window itself.

I can't actually see heads, though. Are the heads still on? If ripped off, then I would say sparrowhawk, but I don't know why it would abandon two good prey items.

If it was trichomoniasis - a common bird respiratory disease often leading to death - there would be swelling around the
throat. But normally you see them wandering around in a daze before it get to death, so you would have noticed these two, I expect.

So sorry for your rotten run of days! :((((