People who know me...

[shewhomust]

... send me birthday cards with puffins on them. The only one that arrived on the day itseld came from durham_rambler, who printed off one of his own photos of puffins on Inner Farne: this may be cheating, but I'll take it.

Other puffins have continued to arrive through the week since then The senders are very apologetic about this, but I'm enjoying my extended birthday, with its puffin-a-day service. The most recent arrival is this cartoon from weegoddess, a particularly neat sysnthesis of how we anthropomorphise puffins with their actual observable traits.

Best of all, though, K. sent me Angela Harding's print of puffins at Fair Isle North Lighthouse. I subscribe to Angela Harding's mailing list, and have been coveting this print ever since she linked to it there - now I have my own (admittedly mniature) copy, and can close the tab on my desktop!

Comments

[sovay]

Happy extended birthday! I am glad it has contained so many puffins.

[shewhomust]

Thank you!

[cellio]

Happy extended birthday with extended puffins!

[shewhomust]

Thank you - I'm not sure a puffin would enjoy being extended, but I'll try not to be over-literal!

[shewhomust]

No sooner had I tidied away the tab with the picture of puffins at the North Light than I received a new newsletter telling me about this companion piece, showing curlews at the South Light. Puffins are better than curlews, obviously, but I have stayed at the Couth Light...