Gull's Picnic

Ms Gull is not a fastidious feeder: Her food can come from a lightweight backpack overspill a simple lunch box, a sumptuous hamper, any variety of cool packs, baskets and bags.. Her picnic spot is a tree-lined churchyard with the hint of damp moss and tobacco a leafy sanctuary in the city’s midst friends chat, dispense gull-alms freely children scampering after her lack the wings to catch her lovers sharing a rug toss a magnanimous crumb Eating outdoors makes the meal that much more memorable. Gull’s snack can be a very impromptu affair or planned by stalking and painstaking surveillance Alfresco meals can be lavish fresh air feasts, There requires no nest cleaning before or after the neighbours complain about noise but space is no problem for large numbers no difficulties with parking outsize flippers the burble of human speech flows in the background, a river of munch and chatter The mighty trees, grave stones Give cooling shade