Re: Great Tailed Grackles, Mourning Doves, and Me

Nick Spalding <spalding@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>Charles Bishop wrote:
>
>
>> Nick Spalding <spalding@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>> >
>> >Mr Barnes's day job is chief s****ts re****ter for The Times.  He also
does
>> >a Saturday column on nature matters.
>> 
>> How old is he would you say? The book is of the tone of an older gent,
>> passing along wisdom to us younger folk. His photo doesn't show him
quite
>> that old, and there was a bit of disconnect when I saw the photo after
>> reading part of the book. I'm trying to come up with a word description
of
>> how I pictured him, the Elderly British Gent, a passable eccentric, and
>> can't quite. I can't decide if he is tallish, with a shock of unruly
hair,
>> or the shorter version, with a fringe of hair over a beaming smile.
Surely
>> there is an archtype in films I've seen, but can't call any to mind.
>
>I don't know.  I think of him as being in his 40s.

That's how he appears to me as well. I got the book out to mention it to
Mary, I'll give it a reread and see if it has the Older Chap tone I
remember. Maybe I can track down some of his s****ts columns and compare.

-- 
charles