in Newcastle this afternoon, a Pheasant, walking down the central reservation of the dual carriageway.

WTF??

Mike

Probably a Maccum got lost

[Edited on 5/5/07 by stevec]

He said pheasant not peasant.

Are you sure it wasn't 'A Partridge', sorry that would have been one of the Norfolk boys spotting that!

Mebbes he was on his way to the Blaydon Races?

"Gannin' along the Scotswood roooooooooad
Te' see the Blaydon Races"

Whats a Maccum?

Resident of Sunderland, once a prolific shipbuilding town, derived from "We maccum (make 'em/make them) and' they braccum (break 'em/break them)."

Not, of course, to be confused with a Smoggie or a Monkey-Hanger