The pest I’ll never forget: the relentless pigeon who stared and stared and ruined my spring
A living room encounter with a toast-loving pigeon proved a big mistake.
According to The Guardian, a living room encounter with a toast-loving pigeon proved a big mistake.
It led to weeks of drawn curtains and crawling around on the floor to avoid its eerie and unerring gaze The pigeon landed on the windowsill. It was shortly after dawn during the spring holidays, but I was 11 and had been up for a while eating toast and watching TV.
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