Thursday, 14 March 2019

Naughty sparrows II

Please, if you haven't read "Naughty sparrows" do so before reading this second part, as it contains spoilers (destripes).

Every day after I finish my working day, I spend a little time speaking with Meire, the cleaning lady. We go outside the academy for a few minutes and we just chat about our day or whatever comes up (surgir).

Yesterday she told me that she had had to tell off (regañar) María, the recepcionist, because she caught her opening a window to show some children a little nest (nido) that has appeared in one of the plantpots "A nest??" That's lovely!" -I said. "Yes, -she replied- and you should see it! It's so perfectly made; it's a little piece of art! All the little twigs (ramitas) are so perfectly plaited (trenzado)... it's beautiful!"

As she was speaking I was imagining the little mummy and daddy birds collecting little twigs from everywhere, and working on the construction of the home for their future little birds, and suddenly a lightbulb appeared above my head: OF COURSE! -I said.


"Of course what?" -asked Meire. "I have solved a mystery!" And I told her about my clovers and how they had been savaged (atacados salvajemente) by the sparrows. "They were just picking twigs to make their nest! -I summed up (resumir)" "That makes all the sense!" (tiene todo el sentido) -she agreed.

When we finished our little chat she told me I had to see the nest, and she took me where it was. I took a picture of that wonderful piece of art thinking of you, thinking I would definitely have to tell you on Thursday that somewhere my sparrows have a nest, maybe as beautiful as this one, made with the clovers they took from my plantpot.

Here it is!

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