The Common Cormorant

I eat my peas with honey,
I've done it all my life.
It does taste rather funny
But it keeps them on the knife.

'If Timothy Theophyllis Thicklewade Thankham thrusts his two thick thumbs through three hundred and thirty-three thousand three hundred and thirty-three thick and thin thistles, where are the three hundred and thirty-three thousand three hundred and thirty-three thick and thin thistles that Timothy Theophylliss Thicklewade Thakham thrust his two thick thumbs through?
Miss Ruth's red roof thatch.
She is a thistle sifter, and has a sieve of sifted thistles and a sieve of unsifted thistles, and the sieve of unsifted thistles she sieves into the sieve of sifted thistles, because she is a thistle sifter.'

Don't ask me why I thought this amusing.

I saw a lot in the South of France in the spring but I think they were carrying Chanel handbags.

I also love this ditty and was reminded of it recently when I saw a cormorant on a visit to the Norfolk Broads. He was too far away to see if he was carrying a paper bag.