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Doing what I’m told

Yesterday it was suggested that a post full of Robins wouldn’t go amiss.  I need something cheerful to post, and people like Robins. I can’t do an arty montage because I’m still using the Stone Age editor so it will just be a dull stack of Robins.

I won’t use that to start a discussion on the evils of WordPress, because I am better than that.

Nor will it be a discourse on double standards in politics. It’s tempting, as I watch Kier Starmer struggle to  condemn the Bristol riots whilst telling us that the London riots were fully justified. With such admirable flexibility of spine, and such a wide range of standards the man clearly has a great future in politics.

So here are the photographs.

Robin

Robin

Robin in a Garden Centre Cafe

Robin on a Fence Post

1995 Robin stamp

1995 Robin stamp

Robin – Stoke on Trent

Robin at Clumber, Nottinghamshire

Robin

Robin at Budby Flash

And so we come to the end, and as I can here my lunch sizzling in the oven (it’s leftover pasta bake from last week) this is probably a good time to stop. Check out this link if you want to know more. It is listed as the European Robin after an international panel decided that it was confusing to have different birds called robins in Europe and the USA. Nothing is ever simple, is it? And international groups can’t leave anything alone with attempting to make it “new and improved”.  And as we come full circle to the subject of WordPress…