Today's Fail.

I tried to share my lunch with a crow today but failed miserably. It took two mouthfuls of my mixed cheese and spring onion sandwich and then flew to a nearby rooftop, from which vantage point it expressed unmitigated derision before disappearing altogether.

It hadn’t occurred to me, you see, that the feeding preferences of the carrion crow (or corvus corone if you prefer to have life Latinized) are not usually listed as including mixed cheese and spring onion sandwiches. They prefer rotting flesh and I was in no position to oblige. I did think of enquiring at the undertaker’s shop on the other side of the road, but chickened out because I didn't want to be guilty of breaking with tradition.