Sunday 3rd July (The Bus Trip)

Mr. Kite looked out of his bedroom window to see a Blackbird ripping up the concrete forecourt of The Dwelling. Looking more closely Mr. Kite could see a square centimetre of soil where the boundary between next door had been damaged. Mr. Kite was pleased to see the broken concrete because it meant that the Blackbird was unlikely to break up the concrete on the front of Mr. Kite's house but you never know. Mr. Kite would not like to return to The Dwelling to find that a Blackbird had behaved like a pneumatic drill and dug up the forecourt.

Today Mr. Kite and His Lady were traveling to Hampstead on the bus for a stay in The Residence. Now after reading about the decline of The House Sparrow in London Mr. Kite was in search of this humble bird. So at one thirty, until five thirty, Mr. Kite sat in a Hampstead garden looking for House Sparrows whilst having the occasional tipple of Peroni, a great Italian lager. In those four hours Mr. Kite watched Carrion Crows, Jackdaws, Wood Pigeons, Gold Finches, Robins and Wrens.

Just before five thirty Mr. Kite did spot a Sparrow of some description; however this was not a Sparrow but a Sparrowhawk gliding over Hampstead. Now Mr. Kite has concluded that the lack of House Sparrows is due to the Sparrowhawk eating them. But then Mr. Kite thought if the Sparrowhawk had eaten all the House Sparrows then he would go somewhere else to eat House Sparrows so there must be House Sparrows in Hampstead.

Mr. Kite had a very pleasant afternoon 'House Sparrow searching' and Peroni drinking but Mr. Kite drank more bottles of Peroni than the number of House Sparrows spotted. Now if Mr. Kite had spotted a flock of House Sparrows then that would be good news; 'lots of birds and lots of beer'. But zero House Sparrows and more bottles of Peroni consummed is not too good.

After a pleasant afternoon Mr. Kite went for a tipple in a nearby Wetherspoons pub. Drinking a few pints of Marstons Old Empire and Abbot Ale Mr. Kite felt refreshed and able to continue his quest to find a House Sparrow in Hampstead. Cheers from London.