That morning the thrush on the highest branch sang like there was no tomorrow.
But now there was a worm. The thrush stood motionless in the grass. The worm was below the surface of the earth. Sunlight sparkled on the thrush’s dappled feathers. The thrush waited. The worm moved. The thrush poised to strike.
Johnny pulled the trigger of his slug gun. Got it! Yeah, when they were still like that they were easy to shoot.
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And indeed there was no tomorrow. I was going to chalk it up to the food chain, but does anyone eat thrush?
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Presumably no one eats thrush – but there were 4 and 20 blackbirds baked in a pie!
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..but when the pie was opened, the birds began to sing!
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What a dainty dish!
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…set before the king, but the poor guy developed thrush mouth….
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I was trying to avoid reference to that. Especially when you asked at the beginning if anyone eats thrush!
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Never can tell what can come out of a pie!
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Almost inevitably what gets put into a pie will come out in the end.
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Stop it, you two, or it’s the wood shed for you. Hmm, you’d probably like that.
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There are swallows nesting in the woodshed – not to be disturbed.
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So then I wondered about the meaning behind that ditty (4 and 20 blackbirds). Well, here is one analysis: http://www.snopes.com/lost/sixpence.asp
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Life cycle. Nicely written
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Thank you… !
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Frankly I’m surprised the dogs barking at 21seconds in didn’t frighten the thrush away!
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Jolly dog – it started barking at a distant train – only happens once a week when an old steam train passes packed with tourists…
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Thrush pie might be some old recipe like starry-gazey pie (eels).
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I have an eel in my freezer so shall explore the starry-gazey pie! I prefer to let the thrushes keep on singing!
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Best not. It’s a medieval recipe, like the 4 and 20 blackbirds. You leave a slit in the crust so the vile little eels can poke their head out…
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Ooooh! Not on my table!
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Personally I think someone should shoot a slug gun at Johnny when he’s standing still and has his attention focused on something…………….. Love from the Thrush
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You’re very chirpy today, Pauline!
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I got up early ……….. 🙂
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The early thrush catches the worm!
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That’s the one 🙂
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An old friend of mine, sadly no longer with us, often spoke of the arrival of Fieldfare (like Blackbirds, a member of the thrush family – Turdus pilaris in the autumn being a great joy as his mother’s fieldfare pie was delicious. That was probably in the 1930s.
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I have a dozen thrushes or so on my lawn each morning – but a pie never, as they get the snails and slugs! But I shall research Fieldfare….
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Then there is the French adage: “Faute de grives, on mange des merles.” (In want of thrushes, one settles for blackbirds.) Beggars can’t be choosers.
Maybe Johnny had nothing else to eat.
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Gosh – so the presumption from that is that they DID eat thrushes and they were nicer than blackbirds. There is a glut of thrushes and blackbirds on my lawn. It is easy to count 10 of each at any one time. The winter has been wet and there are slugs, slugs, slugs. (I suppose they’re edible as well!)
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I can’t get my mind around the idea of eating slugs but….I’ll try anything once. (We used to kill them off by putting jar lids of beer in the garden…they would crawl in and not crawl out. Don’t know if they were too drunk to save themselves or what….)
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I use the same system (but it gets a bit annoying when doing the gardening having to kneel down and slurp out of a jar lid full of slugs).
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Wouldn’t fancy thrush. It would be all shot
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