>>On our allotment, we failed to net the new sprout plants, against the pigeons. Imagine my dismay when I found them all nibbled away the next day. Now what am I to do come Xmas day? :-)
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>Roasting pigeons ?

In Milošević's times:

Two retirees coming to a bench in the park, sitting down.

R1: did you bring some bread for the pigeons?

R2: I can eat them without just as well.