Lockdown Update Day 285

[elisi]

“What’s for lunch?”
“A slice of ham, a roast potato, cranberry sauce, a small heap of couscous, coleslaw, a slice of cheese, a slice of a different cheese, some stuffing, half a tomato, and one bowl containing a tiny bit of trifle on top of the last bit of Christmas pudding.”

— VeryBritishProblems (@SoVeryBritish) December 27, 2020

Post-Xmas means one thing:

WORLD'S STRONGEST MAN TIME!

— John Bull (@garius) December 27, 2020

Shan't talk about Christmas telly, except for recommending the Ghosts Christmas Special: The Ghosts of Christmas.

And finally a Christmassy robin. ♥

Comments

[desdemonaspace]

I love the robin pic. Here in the US we have a bird we call "robin," but it's not the same. (Probably named so by homesick colonists.)

[elisi]

Yes, I presume the red chest made them think of our robins... But ours are SO MUCH rounder.

[desdemonaspace]

I think ours are actually called "Gray-backed thrush," or something.

[elisi]

Not terribly poetic...

[desdemonaspace]

Not even that. I had to look it up, and it's simply the American Robin.

They do lay the most beautiful blue-green eggs, hence the name "robin's egg blue."

[elisi]

I... did not know that. Or never put two and two together. I have learned things today! :)