Birds about the house

this tiny needlepoint from the mid-80s marks my return to an interest in  all things creative

one more pie-rook and it would be a collection

dinner plates from the Natural History Museum

a dish towel? too good to use!

salt and pepper shakers from the 1950s

back from a Greek holiday

...and from a Portuguese holiday

African guinea-fowl(?) with friends from India and Sweden

painted on a cupboard

...and the other door

this one came from St Petersburg, 1996

...and this one from Estonia a few years later

sometimes it's used for what it was designed for - squeezing wedges of lemon

a fascinating book (by Robert Burton, pub 1990)

Out the front windows - pigeons and gulls; out the back, crows, magpies, blue tits.

"A Bird in the House" is the title of a collection of short stories by Canadian author Margaret Laurence. Having a wild bird fly into the house is an omen of bad news, illness, or death - this superstition is related to the otherworldly powers of birds, and the sense of a message being delivered.