Day Two - Norfolk Coastal Path | Burnham Overy Staithe to Blakeney | Cool Dudes Walking Club

[@tommytucker3648]

Once counted over 20 magpies together up in Newcastle. A number of collective nouns for them but my favourite has to be a mischief of magpies. Always say 'hello/morning/afternoon Mr magpie how's the wife and kids?' and always take my hat off and tip it. There's a reason for all this magpie malarkey. I got a stuffed one as a birthday present when I was 7 and the next morning we found one lying dead on our doorstep. Family conference we couldn't fathom it. Was it a heartbroken partner, our cat, some weirdo following us back from the taxidermist, the taxidermist himself? We settled on one for sorrow, two for joy and took it as magpie forgiveness and blessing. Just found your channel as soon to do this walk, really enjoyed good stuff!

[@weebleny]

That story about your granddad and nan had me wheezing with laughter! "The horse just fell down"

[@weebleny]

Marek and the Massive Mushroom has got me doubled over! Thank you for the laugh, I needed it today! (This has been the second installment of live commenting on Marek's latest video. You're welcome.)

[@cdwc]

Super glad you enjoyed it. I am surprised I haven't heard from any TV execs yet.

[@tinasmalley-craig4443]

I love frogs and toads. I collect frog and turtle nic nacs and stuffed animals and things. I can fill an entire room with it all lol. Quick way to tell the difference,....Frogs are smooth and kinda wet or slimy and stay near or in water and tend to leap instead of hop. Toads have "warty" skin and they are usually dry and can be in yards and gardens where there is no water and hop short distances and can even walk like a dog lol. I've had frogs as tiny as a babys fingernail to as big as a puppy. One of Gods fascinating little creatures ♡. Another amazing video. Thank you! You are always a joy to watch. ♡

[@cdwc]

These are great facts thank you Tina. So the first one I saw was a frog and the second one was a toad.

[@Mirily]

Regarding Magpie's it's: One for sorrow Two for joy Three for a girl Four for a boy Five for silver Six for gold Seven for a secret never to be told... Not sure what happens if you see eight!! 🤷‍♀️😄 Also Pugweiser is genius!!! 🤣🤣

[@cdwc]

Yes, thank you cool dude. I love the rhyme, especially the last line.

[@Mirily]

@@cdwc I always liked that one too! 😊

[@indobleh]

What an adventure ! Loving the additional inserts and editing is fantastic, I'm sure it's a lot of long hours to produce this quality. Very enjoyable, stay cool !

[@cdwc]

Thanks cool dude. Each one takes about five days in terms of the walk itself, and editing, planning and adding the drawings. It is turning into a full time job, so your support is very much appreciated.

[@spekticat]

That frog encounter was so pure

[@cdwc]

I very much enjoyed seeing the Frog and Toad.

[@mundungous]

1st post as a KZbin member. Double the chance of winning those sweet pooman cards! Love these videos mate, thank you.

[@cdwc]

Well done cool dude. Thank you so much for joining. There will be more members emojis soon but if you write coloncooldudecolon or colonstaycoolcolon but the : not the word then these come up

[@georgec2894]

I had a Uni geology fieldtrip along that coastline in 2011 - that was a similarly bleak experience in more ways than one. Visted Hunstanton, Well-next-the-Sea, Sheringham and Cromer. Made to write in notebooks until the cold and numbness had emanated from our fingertips the whole way up our arms. Highlight was going out to get fish and chips one evening in Sheringham where a group of 10 of us (yes - that was an all-time peak friends number for me!) started chanting a Teddy Sheringham football song, to which a elderly couple told us to 'grow up!'

[@cdwc]

Ha. I bet there was a ten year period where the residents were sick of Teddy Sheringham related jokes.

[@TheSillyDucker]

I found you while researching the Norfolk Coastal. Your off the wall delivery has had me chuckling. I went for 'C' in the penalty comp. He shoots - he scores. 🎉 They think its all over - it is now.😊 Joking aside, the vids are giving me a feet on the ground idea of how to approach the walk. Thanks, Cool Dude.👍

[@cdwc]

Nice one. Good luck with the walk cool dude. Especially the nightmare shingle beach!

[@mariebryant5731]

Normally try to salute one magpie without looking like an absolute nutter on dog walks 🤣👍 chose number 4 of the paths so I was safe! Phew! And netflix are missing out on mushroom show!!! Thats surely a streaming goldmine!!!! 👍 brilliant art as always 😊

[@cdwc]

Thanks cool dude. Hope you and the family had a great Halloween.

[@ezmarn]

That story about your grandparents is hilarious

[@rbreiff73]

Solitary magpie: "Good morning, your majesty"

[@thekentishpilgrim]

I had Frog and Toad back in America and remember it fondly. I also can’t believe you went for the full English over those pancake options but this proves your Englishness compared to my Americaness.. Looking forward to the next one!

[@cdwc]

I recommend buying it again cool dude.

[@ezmarn]

Omg I loved that book too as a kid the best x

[@cdwc]

I think it was written for adults too, as it is still really funny. Love the 'Get in the Den' videos. Send my love to your family x

[@ezmarn]

@@cdwc And to yours. x x

[@foragebox]

Great fungi find! They are called parasols - edible and delicious! Easy to ID so keep your eyes peeled next time you’re out. Loving the vids, keep it up.

[@cdwc]

Thanks cool dude. I will try and feature more mushrooms on the walks if I see them.

[@jenniferburk7965]

Loved the empty beach scene...Marek, last man alive. We don't have magpies, so I'm either safe from bad luck or denied any good luck. I did pick path 4; maybe I do have some luck.

[@cdwc]

A wise choice. I just watched a 1972 horror film someone recommended set on that beach it was terrifying.

[@grampawud]

A have a few Magpies that have started visiting my garden, they're always messing about being weird so I usually say something like "Look at those Magpies being weird. They're throwing the bird feeders about again". That frog was a toad, you can tell because frogs jump and toads walk and toads look a bit more knobbly. Path 3

[@simonk337]

The mushroom bit was amusing. You're a fungi 😜

[@cdwc]

I should have thought of that one on the day. Ha.

[@walksfunwithgrandad]

Nice video on my Birthday! Thanks.

[@cdwc]

Happy Birthday. Hope you have a wonderful day.

[@shutup6451]

Happy birthday!

[@JohnBone]

whenever I see a magpie (or even hear the word) the theme tune of 1970's tv show Magpie automatically goes off in my head... "Maaa-aaa-aaa-aag-pie! Maaa-aaa-aaa-agg-pie!"

[@cdwc]

Ahhh yes. I know the one, it was a bit before my time. Wasn't Kevin Keegan on it once?

[@JohnBone]

@@cdwc no idea. never watched the show, and all I know about KK is that he had a bubble perm and once fell off a bicycle on TV. Perhaps some of the other Cool Dudes can name famous sportspersons or celebs who have had embarrassing televised accidents?

[@WeaponCollector]

I became a bit superstitious "touch wood" and all that when i used to work with my cousin and on our drives to work he gradually got more and more rushed and reckless, it started to do my head in to the point i carried a small bit of wood in my bag so i could "touch wood" so we didn't crash, eventually we hit a lorry head on (only minor injuries as it was at about 30 mph) after that i chucked the piece of wood away and never did "touch wood" ever again, lol, thats a true story on the dangers of rushing about and superstitious obsessions, both were cured after that crash! Great video as always Marek.

[@cdwc]

I agree that superstitions just lead to weird behaviour. I wonder if that piece of wood is causing bad luck for someone else.

[@WeaponCollector]

@@cdwc I hope someone never found it and has now had a similar incident, lol, The Curse Lump of Wood!

[@PowderedCowsMusic]

Good morning/afternoon mr magpie, and then I salute . If nobody is watching

[@cdwc]

Ha. My brother still salutes them even if people are watching.

[@evegasse6999]

I would definitely say hi Mr. Magpie and I would count myself lucky to have encountered such a lovely winged friend! PS - frogs are amphibians

[@cdwc]

I forgot about frogs being amphibians. So much for my reptiles section.

[@jamestovell8133]

Yes Marek! Love Bang in Wells. Great video again, cheers Cool Dude.

[@cdwc]

Thanks cool dude. That breakfast was absolutely delicious. Almost worth the seven mile walk.

[@tinasavage674]

We salute a magpie on it's own.😊

[@cdwc]

My brother does that too!

[@tommytucker3648]

Black shuck! Now there's a name I haven't heard in about 20 years. Gonna have the heeby jeebies now when I'm camping out there 😆

[@cdwc]

Good luck with your walk cool dude, and especially that shingle beach!

[@tommytucker3648]

@@cdwc cheers! Might do as you suggest and swerve the shingle but get the bus/train see the seals. Look forward to your next hike.

[@ShroudedHand]

pretty sure I saw Chris Packham and Michaela Strachan do a segment on that exact mushroom on last nights autumn watch. As for superstitions. If theres a some manhole covers in on the path, if theres an odd number its unlucky to step on them but if its an even number its lucky to step on them. No idea where that came from, its beein in my head since childhood I think

[@Mirily]

My friend told me that when we were kids! I've never walked over three drains since! 🤷‍♀️🤣

[@cdwc]

My friend told me about the three drains thing too, and once pushed me out of the way of the third one and almost into the road. (I am very pleased to see that someone has worked out the emojis. I thought I was going mad)

[@Mirily]

@@cdwc the three drains were definitely bad luck for you then!! 😳😄

[@lisaperry345]

Great vid as always and I've had the song Black shuck by the Darkness going around in my head since I watched it last night. Could be worse I suppose. 😏 Whenever I go for a full english I have everything apart from beans.

[@cdwc]

I always have the full English without the tomato. I find cooked tomatoes gross for sone reason.

[@lisaperry345]

@@cdwc I get where you're coming from with the cooked tomatoes. I will eat them but sometimes the skin goes a weird texture and I don't like that. 😑

[@chegeny]

Thanks for the book recommendation. Excellent mushroom content!

[@cdwc]

I think there might be a lot of interest in a mushroom based spin off.

[@kieranbaker3679]

“Hello Mr Magpie, and where’s your f***ing friend?” Every time.

[@cdwc]

Not in front of children surely?

[@kieranbaker3679]

@@cdwc Every. Damn. Time.

[@RobbsHomemadeLife]

Years ago I bet on the horses at Hialeah race track. They had a sign on the far side of the tack in the center of the field. I bet on the best horse pick of the day. As the horses went around the track and passed behind the sign my horse never reappeared. it fell and threw the rider. I had a trick to make sure I would always come home with money from betting at the track. I would pay to rent a binocular. I would bet every race and lose all my money. At the end of all the races I would return the binoculars and get a deposit back so I always left the track with money. 😎👍

[@cdwc]

I am going to get a job renting out binoculars at race tracks.

[@alisoncrocker9919]

That beach with the pine forest is the filming location for the 1972 adaptation 'A Warning to the Curious' by MR James, a story about a ghost and some buried treasure. Well worth a watch if you are interested. I recognised it straight away.

[@cdwc]

Excellent walk fact. Will look it up. The woods and beach were very atmospheric. I think the gloomy day added to it all.

[@alisoncrocker9919]

@@cdwc The DVD is available from Amazon......perfect for Halloween. 😃

[@pinefreshflash7881]

Newt is amphibian btw.. great vids.. doing the walk myself at Easter…

[@cdwc]

Good luck on the walk cool dude. That shingle beach is a killer (see Day Three)

[@ExpeditionHiker]

I salute a magpie, I guess magpies aren't in the spotter guide? I think it was a frog then puff their bodies up to make themselves look bigger to predators, nice vid as always 😁

[@cdwc]

Magpies aren't in the Spotter's Handbook. They seem to be everywhere like pigeons.

[@mattentwistle70]

Great video Marek. I recently heard that Duran Duran may make another comeback as Simon Le Bon needs to upsize. I usually just wave at magpies as it infuriates them.

[@cdwc]

It is probably Simon Le Bon's eighth or ninth boat.

[@russellc8282]

My appearance on the next day! So excited! Unless you have edited me out 😤

[@cdwc]

No don't worry you are in it cool dude.

[@squalloogal]

“You put the bloody mockers on it”

[@JensRandoms]

Cool video Marek. I had a similar experience on Bournemouth beach a month ago during a storm. I was the only person there. It definitely had an apocalyptic feel to it. I kind of liked it.

[@cdwc]

Yes the storm definitely gives the place a weird sort of electric energy. I really like it (apart from when it rains too hard).

[@philipemery7328]

Lovely vid. Your TV future is assured! Thanks for adding in the maps too. I ended up in the swamp, so I'm two for two now. At least I didn't go down the middle this time. Should that be a hemimurmuration?

[@cdwc]

Thanks cool dude. You can see if you can fail all six. That would also be an achievement.

[@rentaghost]

I always have to greet a magpie. Either wave or say hello. I usually then recite the magpie rhyme, depending on the quantity of them. Breakfast wise, I'd choose one that wasn't 10.5 quid. £7.95 is more than enough

[@cdwc]

You are right more than £10 for a breakfast is absolute bullshit. This walking holiday was about the same price as a Caribbean holiday.

[@rentaghost]

@@cdwc As someone who lives in East Angular, I feel your pain. My favourite fry ups were on the Mile End Road in East London.

[@MissNancySims]

If I see a single magpie I keep looking until I see another one. Then I can say to the dark fearful child within that everything is going to be OK. (I know it's denial.) Because it's out, and that's fancy for breakfast, I'd go for pancakes and bacon please, with a side order of Arthur Howell's herby sausage for walking activity fortification. Thanks Marek

[@cdwc]

I should have got a sausage roll from Arthur Howell's. My Nan used to get Norfolk sausages from the butchers when we came to stay with her in Norwich. I don't know what spices they used but they were the best sausages I've ever tasted.

[@oscarmarsh29]

Seals come up on shore at Holkham and that may be a reason why the official path doesn't use the beach. Thanks for the videos Marek!

[@cdwc]

Ahhhh. A good point cool dude.

[@jamesjordan9631]

The colours on a magpie are beautiful, but they make so much noise and scare away the smaller birds 😡Some great nature finds on this path so far 👍

[@cdwc]

I am not a fan of Magpies or Pigeons. I think their numbers have increased hugely over the past thirty years, whereas sparrows seem to have disappeared.

[@jacobcarlin3843]

[@cdwc]

[@Roly-world]

Aye aye captain magpie

[@cdwc]

The magpie has got a promotion.

[@Roly-world]

@@cdwc 😂😂😂

[@systemSkynet]

We get another video out this trip. Yaaas

[@cdwc]

There's another four more. Ha.

[@Biofilmz]

Nice one. I'd go for the pancakes with maple syrup and bacon or full english if I were doing the Norfolk Costal Path. Looks like parasol mushrooms- a Macrolepiota species. Cool dude #651.

[@cdwc]

Excellent mushroom facts, thank you. I could have eaten the pancakes after the full English, I was pretty hungry.

[@-aquariuscyclingadventures2325]

Hi My top superstitions are that black cats keep crossing my path. 🐈‍⬛ Find a Penny, pick it up, all day long youlle have good luck. Touch Wood. Fingers crossed. I have to see 2 magpies, 2 for joy & if I don't I say "where's ya mate, mate!" 🦅 If you like mushrooms, Mossy Bottom has got good youtube videos about wild mushroom & gourmet foraging🍄 You can't beat the old sayings like "put the mockers on it". emojis are fun!😀

[@cdwc]

I still do all of those sayings. Especially the touch wood one. I had to do it as I wrote that.

[@Kraiforjoi]

I saw the queen on tv today. Thats my ten points sorted for seeing a reptilian overlord.

[@cdwc]

Poor Liz.

[@TravellingTorunn]

Funny and lovely at the same time 😄 About rain, I will just tell you that here in Bergen, Norway we have so far in October had over 570 millimeters of it. So please just stop moaning about the rain in the UK 🤣🤣

[@cdwc]

I hope you've got good waterproofs. If I didn't moan about the rain I would probably moan about something else. i'd love to come and do a walk in Norway one day.

[@TravellingTorunn]

@@cdwc yes I guess we always need something to moan about. I have good waterproofs but try to stay inside as much as possible in this weather. You are very welcome to visit Norway 👍🏻😊

[@mundungous]

I wish I hadn’t failed the first challenge cos I would have smashed this one!

[@dazbass007]

I sank in the swamp 🤣 not doing to well in this series look forward to the netflix series 😉. ive worked in Blakeney lovely area until the next time I die atb daz

[@cdwc]

Good luck for next time Daz.

[@JURASSICDIVERUK]

One for sorrow, two for joy, three for a girl and 4 for a boy! Can't remember the rest....

[@cdwc]

Five for silver, six for gold, seven for a secret never to be told.

[@JURASSICDIVERUK]

@@cdwc yeah!

[@charlieblimey]

And now all I have in my head is this... kzbin.info/www/bejne/op_QkHmbe5moo9U

[@ColanTonkin]

"Morning Mr Magpie" but using my dad's broad Cornish accent.

[@cdwc]

I normally count to ten, but so fast it has morphed to almost one word where only the words 'one' and 'ten' are discernable.

[@LensEPitt]

Top video! Great mushroom content. I see ‘reptilian overlord’ is in the spotters book. But how likely is it really to see a member of the British royal family on a walk. I just don’t know?

[@cdwc]

I did see a member of the Royal Family once when I used to go to the park outside Buckingham Palace to have a sleep on my lunch break.

[@myfavouritechair]

I salute the solitary magpies

[@cdwc]

My brother does that too.

[@stephr7637]

I've never done anything particular upon seeing a magpie, and now I'm wondering whether if I hadn't persistently caused myself to have bad luck I'd now be disgustingly wealthy, sitting in a bath of champagne and Matey, on a yacht, as my butler throws banknotes over me and a full live orchestra plays the Crystal Maze theme tune. But then maybe I wouldn't be so cool...

[@cdwc]

Yes I sometimes imagine when we all die, that we get shown our lives back on computers by some omniscient thing. And it turns out the secret to life was just something simple like saying hello to magpies or saying 'white rabbits' first thing every month.

[@LeanneModenPoet]

I got eaten by Black Shuck. Curses. But, even though I've not got the freedom of Norfolk, I *am* a Norfolk Scholar - which is what you get if you get three A-Levels in the county. At least, it was when I was at school. So, swings and roundabouts, eh?

[@cdwc]

A Norfolk Scholar! That sounds incredible. I hope you got a certificate too.

[@adamomeara4776]

‘Here’s to you Mr. Magpie, how’s your good lady wife!’ and salute them!

[@cdwc]

Nice one cool dude.

[@ColanTonkin]

Time to add B&B reviews

[@cdwc]

Oh no. These videos are already taking me too long.

[@charlieblimey]

I say "Morning Mr Magpie", for very embarrassing reasons.... Years ago I was walking with a (now) ex-girlfriend along the Mersey Way. As we were walking she spotted a solitary magpie, and she explained to me that as a child in the midlands her father had explained to her that every time you spot a lone magpie you should always say "Morning Mr Magpie" for good luck. And as she said this she smiled and laughed out of embarrassment, and my heart melted as I witnessed the most beautiful thing I had ever seen. Ever since then, embarrassingly, every time I see a lone magpie I say the same thing and I automatically remember how she looked. Over 26 years later. It probably hasn't helped with relationships since then, but it is a good image to carry.

[@cdwc]

That was lovely to read. Thanks cool dude.

[@fagottist]

I think that place at 6:47 was used for location shots in the old BBC version of A Warning to the Curious

[@cdwc]

Cool man. I am definitely going to try and find that to watch.

[@cdwc]

It is on KZbin! kzbin.info/www/bejne/q17boWybjKeDldU

[@christopherselway2274]

I salute Magpies when i see them :-)

[@Camberwell86]

Me an' all... if there are people nearby who may see it I disguise it as a head scratch lmao 😂

[@cdwc]

No wonder magpies are getting so cocky with everyone being so deferential towards them.

[@jacquettabanana]

Would you consider a cool dudes rambling club? Or ever think you'd do a meet up of sorts to go walk abouts? Id be down/up/ for it (not sure whats the cool way of saying it these days lol) 😄

[@cdwc]

Yes I was thinking of doing a meet up before the pandemic. I will wait until things calm down a bit then try and organise something.

[@TheUnnamedGent]

I was going to choose 3 but i changed to 1.

[@cdwc]

Congratulations. Only four more to pass. Good luck.

[@rugglez]

Salute and say morning/afternoon/evening Mr Magpie. I believe they go out in a group unless ther3e are babies in the nest, then the males go out for food and females stay at the nest, so that's why you say Mr. That could be bs I got told as a kid though...

[@jdanielpUK]

Ace amphibian action - I assume they're on the reptile page for convenience

[@cdwc]

Yes it's all the same really isn't it.

[@lottiewood997]

Always "Good morning Mr Magpie" regardless of time of day or sex of magpie

[@cdwc]

Ha. Although I don't think I've seen a magpie in the evening.

[@mikefrancis3550]

I salute a magpie.

[@cdwc]

My brother even salutes them when he is driving.

[@squalloogal]

Woohoo part 2 😁👍 End of the world: Marek on the beach, moaning.

[@alisoncrocker9919]

I say 'Good Morning/Afternoon Mr. Magpie and how is your wife today?'.

[@Skunkola]

"Hello Mr Magpie, how is your wife?" and then spit.

[@cdwc]

Do you spit on the magpie or the magpie's wife?

[@Skunkola]

@@cdwc Usually on the steering wheel

[@spiralfirst6488]

If you pass Mushroom again could you get his autograph for me please? I'm a big fan.

[@cdwc]

I thought I was over his betrayal. This has just brought it all back.

[@musicvidztv1909]

I would say to the magpie, sing a song seeing its a MusicMagpie

[@cdwc]

Cool man

[@chumon1992]

I have superstitions about video games, if I did a certain thing with the controller when I do good i repeated do it even if it has no real bearing on anything. I'll also do the same with rolling dice.

[@squalloogal]

I’ve picked both the wrong things so far. I’m deader than dead 💀

[@cdwc]

Don't worry it is almost impossible to win the Freedom of Norfolk. I think the next one is only one out of four chance of getting in wrong. You could try and get all of them wrong instead.

[@squalloogal]

@@cdwc I’m not sure Zombies viewers are good for the KZbin algorithm but it would be very fitting for Halloween 🎃

[@alltheteam69]

Good Morning Mr Magpie, how’s your lovely wife……. I’ve said it since a kid but given up now having been surrounded by nesting Magpies, that drive me nuts

[@cdwc]

Yes there are some magpies that hang around my back garden. The other day they were making so much noise I could hear them through the double glazing. I go outside and scare them off whenever I see them so they don't get any ideas about nesting there.

[@squalloogal]

I feel “old mushroom” is actually referring to a real person 😮

[@B3tanTyronne]

'Marek and his multitude of magnificent mushrooms' is a child's book in the making, you could even have a frog and toad in it and then Warners Bros would make a series of very successful films out of it. I'll just take 0.5% for the idea from the movie's box-office, can't say faaa, can't say faaaa, cant say fairer than that.

[@cdwc]

Hang on what are you getting the 0.5% for? And is that gross or of profits?

[@B3tanTyronne]

The idea of making it into a kid's book :)

[@ivanboyes9773]

It was a toad, they walk apparently rather than hop.

[@cdwc]

This is an excellent identification fact. I suppose it is harder to hop when you are a massive fat toad.

[@journal59pierre44]

You say good morning mr magpie and touch your head

[@cdwc]

[@squalloogal]

Challenge 2 - path 1

[@squalloogal]

I forgot about the frog 🐸

[@ColinPaterson295]

Oh no, I sank in the swamp, does this mean I can't watch the rest of the walk!?

[@cdwc]

You have to watch with your head in a bucket.

[@danielhurst4744]

When i see a magpie, i usually say 'look at that nasty corvid b#stard, wish I had my gun to hand.....'. Silly little superstition that, I know, but every so often it is to hand and that day is normally a good 'un....😉 And it was a toad on the path.

[@chrismac303]

Great vid, frog n toads are amphibians, not reptiles

[@systemSkynet]

I used to have a wee family of greattits visit me every day for some food. Every day for over 10 years. But this year the magpies have moved in and scared the greattits away. Wee shame.

[@cdwc]

It is the same here. Magpies and pigeons forcing everything else out. At least you don't have those prick parakeets that are everywhere in London.

[@jefyhunt6219]

? Shaggy parasols ?

[@cdwc]

Is this a name for the TV show?

[@jefyhunt6219]

@@cdwc It's the name of those (edible) mushrooms but it could equally be a Spain-based soap opera.

[@michaelwhite8031]

There's not Mushroom at the Top.

[@cdwc]

Ha.

[@user-fm6tj6is6u]

You were meant to kiss the frog/toad...

[@cdwc]

I was worried that if I started I would get too carried away.

[@Vurtonable]

:bush ranger: …. Hmmmm

[@cdwc]

[@Vurtonable]

@@cdwc :coolbushranger: sighs

[@PaintballMagazine]

£100 and no breakfast! Worst start ever man...

[@cdwc]

Tell me about it. I couldn't believe it.

[@kek23k]

I'm gonna say, with an air of completely unsubstantiated authority, the second one was a toad.

[@cdwc]

Yes my gut instinct said toad. In my head frogs are thin and toads are fat. That must be how the biologists differentiate them.

[@kek23k]

@@cdwc I believe this to be an empirical fact.

[@shutup6451]

Another vote for toad 🐸 from me

[@baliksupper6043]

You need a dog 🐕 cool dude!

[@cdwc]

I would be walking everywhere holding a bag of warm shit. So yes I will get one. Ha.

[@7arboreal]

Good morning captain, where’s your wife? This cunningly implies there’s another magpie nearby and magically cancels the ‘sorrow’. Fact.

[@cdwc]

Ahhhhh. Now I understand the wife thing.

[@kronsteen9093]

It's always reassuring not to see you engaging in any small talk with passers-by - unlike on BBC4's Winter Walks, etc. Chatting casually with complete strangers is totally unnatural and non-British!

[@cdwc]

Charlie says 'Don't Talk to Strangers'.