We awoke to find the snow gone despite the attempts by the BBC Blether Centre to send us more-in its place a multitude of Pheasants-Cocky in all his glory and 4 younger ones who despite expert opinion on a twitcher blog-Bird Forum-the wife believes are young pre full plumage males rather than hens as one expert has opined. Certainly they strut around like young pre ASBO lads and Cocky treats them accordingly-rivals rather than a potential bride. Mind you it is not that time of the year yet and if we see Cocky becoming amorous we will know one of three things (a) the brown jobs are female after all or (b) Cocky is gay (c) we are none the wiser.
If (b) there could be a marketing opportunity. There are a number of well known Scotch Whiskys with targeted markets-mostly it seems in the Far East. But not one directed specifically at homosexuals as far as the Hutton Think Tank is aware. A favourite (but not a straight Malt in this case) is Favourite Grouse-pushes all the right Celtic Mist buttons and tastes nice to boot. What we need is a slightly lighter blend, a hint of pink to the nose,, gentle and intelligent but not too limp. Call it 'The Gay Pheasant' and watch your sales take off.
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