Day 3.058: Quack and quill

Three people in the last few days have said to me 'listen to the birds singing - it must be spring' or words to that effect. This is not a big surprise. Much more surprising is that all three of them followed it up with saying that 'presumably they have been singing in the winter too...' Now I don't know for sure, but although we know birds have been around all winter, I suspect that they have not been doing much singing and it really is a new thing for the place to be full of birdsong when the warming sun comes out. We even saw ducks swimming on a pond on Sunday - yes swimming - that means the pond had liquid water in it. Momentous indeed.

Exile #4 has been very keen on writing for some time - she is every bit as committed to it as Exile #3 was to learning to read. I suspect it says something about their characters and perhaps something about birth-order. Anyway it is appropriate that she chose to spend the few dollars we allowed them to have in the gift shop at the Harry Potter exhibition on a quill and ink set - she has produced some very nice pages of writing and scratchy art with it.

The title is a lyric reference, although I can't claim it's a pop-pun - so no it's not a reference to those who went up the hill - does anyone recognise it?