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On this day in 1889 Charlie Chaplin was born.
And now the news:
Chaplin's Finest hour, this is as true today as it was when he first spoke these words:
Last Sunday, Corinna, my nephew Ross, Prudence and I went to the monthly bird sale at Northam. I was vaguely looking for a parakeet so, of course, I came back with a pair of Bengalese finches. These are particularly interesting birds because they are not actually a species; they are a long-standing domesticated complex introgressive hybrid of several small southeast Asian seedeaters, including - I suspect – several of the munia tribe. There is actually a mystery here, because as far as I know, no-one has ever investigated the actua
l antecedence of these pretty little birds, despite the fact that they have been domesticated as caged birds for many centuries.
nership post haste.