Sunday, October 16, 2011

Pure unadulterated evil


It has started.  Magpie season.  Conveniently coinciding with longer rides in response to daylight savings and the looming Taupo Cycle challenge.  Why do magpies hate cyclists so much? Is it some ancient karmic payback from when magpies were potatoes and cyclists were Irish?  I have tried a number of approaches - excessive cussing, making eye contact, logic and reason ("Look bird, I am clearly not interested nor capable of threatening your nest.  Do I look like I could climb a pine tree?"), ludicrous helmet appendiges...and yet still they come after me.

Last weekend I sustained a full body blow to the head.  To be honest, it was a bit like being clocked with a feather pillow and preferable to beaks and claws, but it still gave me a hell of a fright.  Earlier this week I got swooped by a vicious individual on Lake Terrace - literally in the middle of Taupo!  Come on birds!  Be reasonable! 

Anyway, enough of my Hitchcockian nightmare.

Until next week, if you see a cyclist, you can be sure there will be an evil bird watching from the nearest pine trees.

love
Ironmaiden

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