They sound like Starlings

Am I right in thinking it's indicative, there are some very odd looking routes when I compare it to the satellite images

This route doesn't look right - Pangbourne to Goring

My experience is that having to give up beer, bread, cake, biscuits, pastry and pies is a massive inconvenience; but it's better than being ill all the time.

So sorry it's happened to you.

You'll be learning to scrutinise every packet in the future to check the ingredients. Watch out for crisps!

It's interesting to see the stone and gravel riverbed as I'd always imagined the riverbed as a muddy mess.

If the water wasn't so full of effluent and run off from agriculture i.e. if it was clean, the river could be beautiful

Are there any games with rainbows and fairies? I'm getting bored with all the urban warfare scenarios

I thought the first drawing was looking South, but now I'm not so sure. Here's a snip from a map of 1830-1880

I found out about them when I paid a trip to Dorset 3 years ago and I haven't seen one since. I assumed they were a Dorset initiative

.. and the nursery rhyme continues.

"Counting out his money.
The Queen is in the parlour.. "

I think this stile might be the ultimate in recreational stiles.

There's a gate.

Oh yes the ponies, there are a few and I was lucky to get close to some of them last year