Oh, er, missus …
It started with the BBC website. There a headline promised:
Malcolm Redfellow’s World Service reported the story internationally. It had already been duly noted and appreciated in Denver, Colorado.
Malcolm then discovered Nich Starling, at Norfolk Blogger, had been similarly taken; and elected this his “headline of the week”.
A further comment from Harry Hook recalled that “tits like coconuts but sparrows prefer breadcrumbs”.
Which, in turn, reminded Malcolm that the consensus is this great ornithological truth was revealed by Griff Rhys Jones and Mel Smith.
Jones, Welsh-born but brought up in Essex, has a dark secret:
his father had a boat in West Mersea, which they would sail around the coast of Suffolk and into The Broads.
Notice the pattern developing here:
- Malcolm is, proudly, Norfolk-born.
- Nich is the Norfolk Blogger.
- Jones’s boat on the Broads.
- Malcolm’s son-in-law (Brooklyn-born and Jewish: therefore stereotypically, a practising amateur psychiatrist) would see added ambiguity even in “the Broads”.
