Four eggs.
Both the pigeons eggs broken – do not know how, possibly a cat tried to get up to the nest & scared the bird off. Evidently fertile eggs as they were streaked with blood.
Clear & fine.
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Clear & fine? Streaked with blood… and it’s clear and fine?!
Oh, he meant the weather.
four eggs? I think that’s a record!
It’s a Christmas miracle!
Oh no George has a nemesis! Get that evil cat!
“Evidently fertile eggs as they were streaked with blood”
Mother pigeon may have been clipped by a claw. Ahh well a cats gotta do what a cats gotta do.
!!!! and not 2 days ago I was suspecting a hithertobefore unmentioned feline…. Cats + pigeons = bad news. I could see it coming.
But way to ruin some good news… FOUR EGGS!!! Woohoo!!!! It seems that the chooks took advantage of the cat’s pigeon distraction…
Tragedy upon tragedy in the pigeon family.
It just wouldn’t be Christmas unless something got streaked with blood.
Weather clear and fine,
We can celebrate four eggs:
Season demands blood
My god, 4 eggs? Where will this end?
Even HE says they’re fertile eggs, I feel vindicated.
Two (fertile) eggs broken by a cat… what a lousy metaphor… Come on George, you can tell us things aren’t going along fine with your wife