of ducks

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i happened to have reason, indeed chance, look you see, to be down by the river near home. this one all one day recently. for the most part the day was tempered by a cool, icy and particularly crisp (hello, Faye) air of wind, but overall the blemishes of sun which struck made it all move from bearable to pleasant.

whilst down by the river, and i hasten to add not in any sort of quasi metaphorical way as one would associate with, for instance, the song Take Me To The River, i could not but help notice a variety of ducks were too, in their own duck way, making an observation if not similar then surely not so different from the one i have made in this very post.

the interesting thing, for me, about the above is that i managed to capture an image of the ducks in flight. walking the same earth as us, ladies and gentlemen, are those who do not believe ducks can take to the skies. for them, from what i can ascertain, the duck is little more than "the chicken of the fresh water ways of the world". one can understand this view, i suppose, when you consider how widespread and prolific phrases such as "like a duck to water" and "water off a duck's back" are. in some capacity or another, each of us must accept guilt for creating an image of ducks which is exclusively water based.

speaking of prolific, it just so happens that Spiros and i know of a rather enthusiastic duck sexer. again, for many of us, the gender of a duck might make little difference; but for somebody somewhere it probably does. by no means would i call this individual a friend of either myself or Spiros, but we know of him. also, so far as we are aware, he ascertains and checks the sex of a duck purely for personal, hobby based reasons. it has nothing whatsoever to do with his profession.

yes, a video for you. one i call "ducks in action", although in truth there is not much action to be seen in this clip. my suspicion is that i've not put all that much in the way of video up on this blog recently, so, well, what better way to remedy or address this than some footage of ducks?

how do you say "ducks" with a posh English accent? in truth i am uncertain, for one thing i do not have in this world is a posh English accent. some have said that i do, which is kind but mostly evidence of them not hearing an actual proper posh accent. anyway, my guess would be "dacks" or even "dhacks". what i suggest you do, if interested, is randomly ring people in England, ask them if they are posh and if they say yes, quite, they are, request that they say the word "ducks" for you.

no, i suppose i do not have so much to say about the ducks, at least not beyond that which i have written here already. so it might be best, prudent even, to just have another picture and be on my way.

should all of this been of interest to any people enthusiastic or otherwise interested in ducks, well then there is one good thing i have done for the day today.



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