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My darling,
… It has been a magnificent day and starlit night. Not a cloud in the sky and a keen fresh breeze. I can hardly keep my eyes on the paper for watching the gulls wheeling over the bird table. We put out some Swoop but the time birds take to come back is extraordinary. And even after they do come back they take as long again to wheel around and peer and circle and hover before one dares at last to settle – one toe only and off again; cats on hot bricks could teach them nothing.