Stone the crows? I wouldn’t dream of it personally.
It’s a phrase you don’t hear very often, its origins are unclear
"What I says is crows is devils." Tom pointed at the trees, where the blue-black legions sat squabbling and blinking their wicked white eyes. …
I came across these handsome birds, in a car park in Wales (we got about a bit last week!). Hopelessly back lit and mooching about, in and out of the shadows, they kept me entertained whilst trying to eat my sandwich in the car. I did a lot of that last week too.
Can I encourage you to pop across to dou dou’s site and take a look at the beautiful birds there?
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Watching the rhythm of rural life, from the top of a hill in northern England.
Having spent most of my life avoiding writing, I now need to do it!
I am no domestic goddess, but if I were expecting visitors to my home, I would whisk round with the duster and plump up the cushions and generally make the place look presentable. I hope that by putting my words where others may see them it will encourage me to ‘tidy up and push the Hoover around’ my writing.
On the other hand I may just be adding to the compost heap. Only time will tell!
Pull up a chair, sit yourself down, I’ll put the kettle on.
February 26, 2013 at 9:03 pm
You’ve hit the spot here because crows are among my favourite animals. They are extremely intelligent (as I have remarked before) and show a remarkable ability to think up ways of getting food out of awkward settings, even to the point of making tools to do the job. To anyone interested in corvids I would recommend Esther Woolfson’s book Corvus: A Life with Birds.
February 26, 2013 at 11:37 pm
Your photos are always something to crow about
How lovely to have spent time in Wales…looking forward to more photos and hearing more about your trip. Thanks for the link.
February 27, 2013 at 8:11 am
I suppose that being big and black it’s inevitable that they’re generally cast as baddies. There are plenty here that I always look at with interest, especially when airborne. Thanks for the link. xx
February 27, 2013 at 10:48 pm
We love seeing food photographed well – they look very tasty!
February 28, 2013 at 1:10 am
I have read that crows are able to identify human faces. I even read that they will attack those who have been unkind to them. We don’t give them enough credit.
February 28, 2013 at 6:07 am
I hear tell that crows will kill newborn lambs if given the chance, whence the antipathy . I also heard it as, “Betsy, stone the crows!” — which takes only Betsy’s name in vain.