Sometimes old sayings are the truest sayings.
Birds of a feather flock together.
Hear, hear.
Especially if they happen to be fetching and feathery eligible ladybirds and you are a single, solo and suave manly manbird.
Yet not everyone shares your (wise and wonderful) world view.
Let’s say you happen to live in an interspecies flock where not every member has feathers.
In fact, you are the only flock member who can grow their own feathers.
Most of your flock is utterly featherless.
Two members insist on carrying around a hard domed object on their backs everywhere they go – go figure.
And one of your flock members has fur.
This might not be precisely the flock you ordered.
But you know what they say – when you can’t be with the ones you love, love the ones you are with.
In other words, love is always a good idea.

Pearl & his mommy