Urban Magic

When I lived in London I only ever heard birds when I’d stayed up all night. It seemed like one more signifier that I’d held out until a moment on the clock when humans weren’t meant to be around…

Totally agree! Not a moment too soon and isn’t it glorious when it starts getting lighter. Roll on spring.

ps. made it, hee hee

Noticable out here in the countryside, too, even when we don’t have lots of buildings close by to hold some sort of warmth. Actually had to shed a layer under my Stockman waterproof walking home, it was too warm. Birds are getting territorial, crocuses are popping up, along with the snowdrops, but that faint hint of green hasn’t graced the tree branches yet. Crows and ravens are nesting, though the rain isn’t giving up yet.
Know what you mean about the feathered rat, sorry, pigeon. Perhaps you could fashion a Peregrine Falcon decoy to frighten it away. Or entice a real one along for a take-away…

Up here in the North East of England the sun has taken to heaving itself out of bed before 7am and the Flying Feathered Dinosaur descendent’s begin to make a chirpy nuisance of themselves long before they should.

As for pigeons. Ha ! We have Seagulls the size of hang gliders up here who would Eat a Peregrine Falcon for breakfast and the Seagulls have Told me that my copy of ‘The Midnight Mayor ‘ is on its way! True the bookdepository.co.uk have also told me this ..’ Item status: Dispatched ‘ but the Seagulls told me the news first ..and also muttered something about a .. HAT?

‘Round here the Peregrines usually leave the big seagulls alone as well; too fishy, and they scavange rubbish tips that give them a rank flavour as well.

Indeed ? AdrianH ? You will no doubt be Aware that Big SEAGULL is Now watching YOU ! .. and is Aware that you claim to know what a Seagull Tastes Like?

I wish you well of this Knowledge, given that Enormous Descendent’s of The Dinosaurs are perfectly capable of Crapping Upon YOU from a great Height with Strangely Magical Substances.

In the Mean Time .. and Seagulls and Pigeons are MEAN .. I can announce that my copy of ‘ The Midnight Mayor ‘ did arrive Yesterday and was collected by Me today via the local Postal Depot, after the post -person of yesterday failed to realize that The BOOK was not bound fast with the Elastic Bands of Doom together with that Amazon delivery of the Blu Ray of ‘The Tudors ‘ .. Seasons One and Two .. and a new pin Brush for Shona, who is The Keeshond of The Baskerviles and whoose Pack-leader Karen has just savagely criticized me for many of my ..entirly femininely illusionary faults …SHE was Late And Not ME !!! … prob IT WAS a Female Post Person, for am I not Cute and Lovable? ..and thus SHE would have entirely failed to realize that the delivery would, once separated into its three components, feed through my LARGE letter box.

Back to my Book …which begins in an interestingly Raymond Chandler ish fashion … Confusion Rules … as is Proper.

Arnold.

Ha! Sadly, my copy of Midnight Mayor will be a trifle delayed, as it’s winging it’s way across the murky depths of the North Atlantic, hopefully not by means of a large aggressive gull. My fault for wanting a nice hardback copy. Still, all good things come to he who waits. Perhaps it’ll be accompanied by a hat, for deflecting foul-smelling seagull crap…

Oh frabjous day! Those lovely people at Amazon have just informed me my copy of Midnight Mayor has been dispatched. There was a cryptic note about a hat…?

So, anyway, thought I’d check my Amazon order, and it turns out that somehow my order for a hardcover had transmuted into a paperback! How did that happen? I now have a hardcover coming from bookdepository.co.uk. The paperback will be gifted to the person who had my p/b of Madness…
There you go, Kate, two copies to one customer.