bird in a tree

Last week, herons; this week, a magpie (one for sorrow ...), sitting in a tree in The Grange, a rather fine Wimbledon road near us (I was out on a walk - eating off my father's completely deluded notion of what might constitute a healthy diet.  A vegetable is not a vegetable if it's in a put-in-the-oven Waitrose vegetarian spring roll - I didn't go near that one - nor are apricots the best of fruit when they're stewed with so much sugar that they might as well be jam ...