My Chateau

I have decided to buy a chateau! Why do I want a chateau I hear you ask. Well, yesterday, I was invited to lunch at the home of an illustrious personage and I just happened to meet a very nice person who proceeded to talk about buying property in a particular European country.   We chatted and this person mentioned that he had almost bought a property there but it was a little bit on the expensive side so as he was hesitating, it got snapped up by his good friend.   “A little bit pricey,” he repeated, “US Dollars 180 Million.”   I didn’t know what to say, I just stuttered and repeated his words, “ Just a little bit pricey.”

So, I have decided I want my own chateau.  Why should I sit on a miserable little ledge, on a miserable street in a miserable neighbourhood, in a miserable suburb? Why? Why? Why?   Then I had a little think about it.  Everything is relative in this world isn’t it? In the eyes of less fortunate birds, I am a very fortunate bird indeed.   I live on a nice warm ledge, in a nice, clean building, in a decent street, in a prosperous city so according to a poor little bird living on a rubbish dump in some slum in a poverty stricken country, I’m doing quite well for myself.   So I have to remind myself how fortunate I am and to think about what I HAVE rather than what I DO NOT HAVE.

There! That’s settled then.

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This is an example of my chateau -  It is the Pigeon House at Chateau Dree  (1620)