yes, then, as the title (kind of) gives every indication, this post concerns a goose what i gone done saw. well, ostensibly, look you see. sadly i think, mostly, this shall just showcase how bad the camera is on one of them "samsung galaxy" things, for the pics and videos are rather wanting. no idea how it is that they have become "market leaders". if you are going to weld a camera to a phone, at least make it a decent one. doesn't have to be fancy, just serviceable.
my apologies for those of you who(m) saw the title and assumed that this would be about the goose, as in Goose out of Top Gun and, kind of, Top Gun Maverick. little i can immediately think of would bring me as much pleasure as writing of him, but i am doing this one now.
for matters of provenance, yes, once more i was in that there London (innit) this was for a verk concern, and yes it will be quite likely that the majority of my days will be there for the year (2025). as most of you shall have worked out i was "north of the river". on stepping outside my hotel momentarily to do a certain thing (sorry) i could not help notice this goose. well, it would be hard to miss. he, she or it, whichever is right, was sort of mooching around, picking at the occasional bit of lawn for reasons i am not sure of but likely relate to food.
it may (or might) be a good idea to take in that image above again, really. as suggested, or directly stated at the start, the quality of the visuals here is not so good. indeed such could be said to be true of any images what i have recorded and added here over the last 20 (!) or so years, but still. please, LG, start making phones again, yours were class and the best i had used in the "touchscreen" era.
there was some surprise (since things get worse when i try and zoom in) that i could get as close as i did to this goose. i had no wish to startle it, for the goose was simply doing goose things. or what i take to be goose things, i am no expert. also i had no wish to get knacked off of the goose. not sure if they are quite so territorial as a swan would be, or as vicious, but it did not occur to me to find out.
what "sort" of goose was this? as in which "breed" or even species if that is the proper, more better term to use for an unsolicited presumed question? owing to what little knowledge i had of potential types of geese in the area i initially assumed one of them Canadian geese. a proper one, mind, and not one of the ones off of Canada that for some reason think it quite class to be French. my research on that google thing, however, gave every indication that such geese had a much darker top of head and eye area.
my thanks to a good friend, though, with who(m) i shared the (at a push) better quality image with, long before i added all this here. it is her considered and learned opinion that i had, as point of fact, had a chance encounter with an Egyptian goose. does every single country on the planet have a type of goose named after them? no idea, but it would be boss if it were so.
exactly how does an Egyptian goose, or a cleverly disguised Canadian goose, end up wandering the somewhat expensive wastelands of the northern side of the Thames? not sure, but i do have a vague theory. it strikes me that there's an alarming number of people in that there London (innit) with vast wealth and little to do with their time. would not at all surprise me to learn that one of them had gone right ahead and imported some, setting them free, as a simple matter of something to do to pass their time. since, on my experience (limited as it is), the one goose has no quarrel with this, no real harm done, except the momentary bewilderment of asking why.
here's hoping i get to see some more kind of interesting things and share them here. otherwise, well, if you opt to read the usual stuff i do, thanks for doing so.
be excellent to each other!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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