Permanent Tourist

The personal website of Mark Howells-Mead

Starling in a fig tree

Not a waste of fruit

If you want to infuriate a Swiss person who grew up in the countryside, leave fruit on a tree beyond the point where they should be picked. One neighbour rang the bell three days running earlier this month to ask when we were going to pick the figs on the trees in the front garden. The starlings and sparrows weren’t anywhere near as hesitant…

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