[Phil] And the closely related but even greater pleasure that is golden retrievers. :-)

[cfm] I was going to say that if you made it to the UK I could offer the gin/olive/hot tub combination, but then you said you preferred fluff-head retrievers to collies.
Oh and the call of a curlew

Starlings or Asbo-birds as we call them in our house.

[Phil] BTW When did you sneak into Software's house?

[NJ] Wouldn't you like to know!

A lark, ascending. And the necessity of being in open countryside away from urban noise to be able to hear it.