Counting crows, & BBC Alba

I love this video of a crow using  a jar lid as a sledge. 

And this is enlightening too, I didn't know they were so intelligent.

There are also crows in The State of Me:

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helen         He’ll be so handsome in his graduation
                  robe and I should be with him, wearing my
                  polkadot dress – afterwards, they’re going to
                  the Ubiquitous Chip for dinner and I’ll be
                  stuck here counting rooks and crows.

stranger    What’s the difference between a rook and a
                  crow?

helen         A rook’s a kind of crow – a gregarious
                  Eurasian crow to be precise. They nest up
                  high and are very noisy.

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The BBC Alba documentary on ME - as part of 'Trusadh' series - is out next Monday 23 at 9pm, the second part on Monday 30. (If I have a lisp it's because I'd recently had my wisdom tooth out.)

Come September/October of this year I will have been ill for almost thirty years. It's a long time to have been ill, a long time to have dealt with all the bullshit. I remember my first symptoms like yesterday, but I do not remember the last day of feeling completely well. I was not yet nineteen when I got the Coxsackie virus, which triggered  ME. I had just gone to live in France as part of my degree, it should have been wonderful, and it turned out to be nightmarish.  And I know I come across as feisty and fighting, but I have the fragility that all of us with longterm ME have, and I have the 'scars' of not being believed.