From: Mistral mistral@centurytel.net

What a wonderful header: Wendy's Complaint.

"Well, doctor? What do the tests say?" "All the symptoms seem to point to Wendy's Complaint, I'm afraid." "Is it serious?" "No, not really. Some people find it rather aggravating, but it's quite harmless if you don't take it too seriously. Take two of these three times a day; they won't actually do anything but you can always pretend they help."

Fiona Moore wrote:

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Actually to me it sounds ironic. Wendy expressed a view of Deliverance

quite

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different from the Gospel According to Lysator, and, good heavens, she

got

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attacked for it. So did Neil, Dana and I for agreeing with her. Under

those

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circumstances, I'd be a bit bitter too...

Well, this just proves how differently people can see things. You and Neil got _disagreed_ with. _Debated_.

I think I might have noticed if I'd actually been attacked. Disagreed with, yes, but not all that much, debated certainly, but *attacked*? Nah.

It was actually quite interesting to come home from work and download a megasack of 70-odd posts from what I now think of as The Night of The Long Wendy. As soon as I saw the sheer volume I thought, "Aha, something's happened," and following its development blow by blow was by various turns fascinating, gripping, horrifying and saddening, and in the middle of it all, the one lone post from the UK Birding list:

Do Black Redstarts ever use nest boxes?

I almost fell off me chair when I read that.

Neil