jmgoyder

I only discovered this by accident when I was googling something and I ended up seeing a couple of ads on e-bay. People were selling feathers at $3 each, or else wanting feathers. I thought this was extremely strange until I realised that the people wanting feathers were milliners (you know, hat makers).

Well, I have been collecting some of the feathers that the birds regularly shed anyway, and these now fill several vases; I have peacock feathers, golden pheasant feathers, white peacock feathers, guinnea fowl feathers, even chook feathers (I don’t think these are quite so popular!)

I actually find the feathering of our lawns almost as irritating as the poo. For example, when I let ‘the gang’ out of their yards in the morning and they sprint and stumble after me to the breakfast spot, they shed so many of their under-feathers (mostly white and fluffy), that it looks like it’s been snowing!

By the way, it doesn’t snow in Western Australia.

I can’t believe it; just as I am writing this, one of those horrible easterly winds has swooped in and, whammo, the lawn is once again featherless. I hope I haven’t just lost a potential feather fortune.

Put a feather in your cap and, if you don’t have a feather, I can sell you one for $3!