Tits and Knits

What does a 50p coin weigh?

Nothing really. Go and get one and try it for yourself - you can hardly feel it in your hand.

It weighs the same as a Long Tailed Tit.

It's made the top 10 in this year's RSPB garden birdwtach.

The Long Tailed Tit is all tail - the actual bird part is impossibly small.

It's amazing to think that it survives outdoors in the rain, snow and storms, flies through the air, twitters noisily, does acrobatics in the trees, builds nests and has sex (but not as we know it).

When I read this good news an old rhyme sprang to mind. We used it as a cruel insult in our junior school where it was recited (screamed) across the playground with considerable venom.

Long Tailed Tit
Your mother can’t knit
Your father can’t walk with a walking stick.....

I can't find it mentioned anywhere on the web. Did I dream it?

Can you imagine a more hateful and scandalous insult than to suggest that your mother was unable to knit?

My mum could knit but my father had a touch of the Heather Mills McCartney problem. But he could walk quite well without a walking stick - thank goodness.
KAZ