Now I don\u2019t mean to be alarmist, but I think the red-legged partridges are spies. I think they\u2019re watching our movements. More to the point, I think they are watching our Mistress. Everywhere she goes they seem to be there. Now I know when you know what something is you start recognising it everywhere you go, but she swears there were not red-legged partridges everywhere last year. She saw them on the airfield when she was walking Shadow and then down the road when she was going to the tip and then the pair of them were sitting at the end of our driveway watching for her coming home. I want to know who they\u2019re working for and what in particular they are reporting. I\u2019m trying to work out whether to do my duty and try to foil their plans or whether to become a double agent and see if I can get paid for providing them with more information.<\/p>\n
Our Master thinks I may be overreacting, but he\u2019s not the one being watched. I\u2019m sure they don\u2019t follow him to work to watch his movements. I\u2019ve discussed it with Shadow as she is the one most often watching the front garden and I\u2019ve asked her to report back on their activities. The two on sentry duty seem to spend quite a bit of time going under the weigela plant so I\u2019m wondering if that\u2019s their communications post. I suppose the fact that they\u2019ve invaded the airfield might be alarming, but it\u2019s better than the crows who have been in possession for the last couple of years. Quite honestly murder is an understatement for their recent activities particularly in relation to the ducklings on the village pond. We don\u2019t seem to have any this year and that will all be down to the crows. Any sensible duck will have moved somewhere safer like Gressingham.<\/p>\n
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