my good friend Anne was telling me about her youngest son's latest gaffe.

the bits of bread she'd put out on the bird table had been disappearing rapidly over the past few days.

she told me Chris had said 'mum, the pine cones have been eating all the bread!'

in astonished she asked what he meant- turned out he meant 'magpies'. i lol!

he asks 'well, what are pine cones?'

anne says 'they're the little round things you paint silver & gold at xmas to put on the xmas tree