Two interesting things happened to me this week.
1. On the roof opposite my window at work, I watched as a seagull ate a dead pigeon. If this were already not a startling enough example of Mother Nature at her most macabre, the seagull was adding to the sense of dementia by gleefully ripping strips off the dead bird and flailing them around in the air, blood and sinew spraying out in an arc. Lovely. Bon appetit.
2. I became a proper author. Not that I have anything published yet, of course, apart from a brief paragraph on the unlikely use of special-needs children as entertainment at last year’s super-bowl, but I still feel I can safely make the claim. Why? Because alongside P.D. James, Martin Jarvis, Bill Bryson and Hugh Fearnley Whatshisname, I’ve been given my very own author’s page on the website of esteemed literary agents Greene & Heaton Ltd. G&H describe their authors as being “prominent in their field”, which I figure must make me an expert in the ways of kitten cuteness.
But then you probably knew that already.
when can we buy a copy of that book?
no more dead meat please. something nice for a change? may be a new outfit? new hairdo? fraser shopping in the glamorous shops of london?
something nice and pretty, please.
September 2007.
I disagree with the previous posters. Plz to post pigeon recipes. And something nice involving seagulls onna stick.
bad, bad ducky.
you’re not in germany, scary? soccer without you?
Hey fraser, i saw the exact same thing (seagull eating pigeon) outside our work window, just on top of the car park. Very grim indeed.
Hey Fraz, i keep looking at that site. it really is you. Congratulations.
When they make kittenwar the movie you know where to look for the soundtrack don’t you?
you could have started a new food series featuring animals eating disgusting things – maggots feasting on rotting flesh, tapeworms dining on stomach contents, that kind of thing. although perhaps it wouldn’t be quite as charming (or popular) as kittenwar.
I’m very proud of your new author status.
you should hook up with Thomasina Miers. She looks hot, likes cooking, is a lady…. you are the same. it’s a match made in food heaven.
I am the same? You mean that I am a lady?
well done on the publication fraser! I too am to be published soon, in some chemical journal though, not sure which yet.
Keep up the meaty posts though. I’ve got a good recipe for pigeon pie from the itallian godfather of food Artusi Pellegrino that I could transcribe for you…
THE MOTHER NATURE THAT U HAVE DISCUSSED HERE IN THE BLOG IS REALLY VERY NICE!
IT WILL MAKE U REALIZE THAT TILL TIME U ARE ALIVE U ARE STRONG AND NOBODY CAN TOUCH YOU BUT MOMENT YOU DIE EVERYTHING CHANGES. YOU ARE NOT WHAT YOU WERE…
THNX FOR THAT LOVLY BLOG. ALL THE BEST FOR YOUR PUBLICATION
Hmmm. The seagull thing didn’t bother me a bit. Maybe I should try to be more sensitive…
Congrats on the author blurb.
I used to get the seagull eating pigeon show in the car park every lunchtime but I haven’t seen it for a while now. I think its starting doing it in the river but you can’t see it as well there. I always kick myself that I’ve never managed to get a good action shot. I’ll post it if I ever do.
gulls are actually cannibalistic. working in a marina for the summer i witnessed it on multiple occasions. they’re truly flying garbage cans.
interesting as i have many a time seen a seagull eat a pigeon and it is for the rich protein of the pigeons body so it is the reason i think they do it.
hmmm guess how bored i am i just typed death by pigeon into google and you came up. Well its better than doing a stupid essay on Mitochondria.