How to tell the birds from the flowers

Everyone loves getting post - for me it's recently got more interesting since I started freelancing (yay! - a cheque!) and joined lovefilm (yay! - a DVD!) . But the best little package was waiting for me this morning. Lovely Kate of Wisdom sent me this little gem - A handy guide for if you have problems with telling birds apart from flowers...

"Why don't you tell me all the things you like and the things you don't like... I like good foods, steaks and hash brown potatoes, things like that. I like good books and magazines, riding on trains at night and those times I flew in an airplane"

Raymond Carver 'The Student's Wife'

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Just finished this, It was really great.