Petra and Paul were driving across the Camargue in a rented car<\/p>\n
It was the first day of their French holiday<\/p>\n
I tell you that there are only sixteen flamingos in the whole of the Camargue<\/em><\/p>\n There are far more than that have you never seen them in films and the like<\/em><\/p>\n It is all an illusion<\/em><\/p>\n A trick of the light<\/em><\/p>\n There have only ever been sixteen flamingos<\/em><\/p>\n We will see when we arrive<\/em><\/p>\n Arrive where<\/em><\/p>\n The Flamingo Lake<\/em><\/p>\n There is no Flamingo Lake<\/em><\/p>\n An hour later both Petra and Paul were to be found under a tree on the shores of a thin lake<\/p>\n After swimming for a while they returned to their bags only to find that a flamingo had stolen them and was parading with the bags on a rocky outcrop some metres above them<\/p>\n What shall we do<\/em><\/p>\n Nothing<\/em><\/p>\n We have to do something otherwise we will spend the rest of the day in our swim gear<\/em><\/p>\n That flamingo is the 17th<\/sup>\u00a0Flamingo and the 17th<\/sup>\u00a0Flamingo does not exist<\/em><\/p>\n It looks real enough to me look it has my summer dress dangling from its beak<\/em><\/p>\n Turn around Petra<\/em><\/p>\n Why<\/em><\/p>\n Just turn around<\/em><\/p>\n What do you see<\/em><\/p>\n The lake<\/em><\/p>\n What else<\/em><\/p>\n Flamingos<\/em><\/p>\n Count them<\/em><\/p>\n What<\/em><\/p>\n Count the flamingos<\/em><\/p>\n I 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16<\/em><\/p>\n I have counted 16 flamingos<\/em><\/p>\n And that proves that the 17th<\/sup>\u00a0flamingo does not exist<\/em><\/p>\n Petra turned around and looked for the thieving flamingo but it was no longer where it had previously been<\/p>\n It was a trick of the light that\u2019s all Petra<\/em><\/p>\n Was the theft of the bags a trick of the light<\/em><\/p>\n Or the games with my summer dress<\/em><\/p>\n The bag is where we left it and you did not bring a summer dress<\/em><\/p>\n You were wearing a vest and shorts<\/em><\/p>\n I brought a summers dress<\/em><\/p>\n The red one<\/em><\/p>\n It is in the apartment<\/em><\/p>\n I packed it just in case I burnt<\/em><\/p>\n Check the bag<\/em><\/p>\n Petra unzipped the bag but could not find her summer dress<\/p>\n This is all getting very strange Paul<\/em><\/p>\n Not really but let us return to the town and leave these beautiful creatures in peace<\/em><\/p>\n As they approached the town they found that they had joined a queue of traffic<\/p>\n A lorry had spilt its load of summer dresses<\/p>\n Near the roundabout a disinterested traffic cop was giving directions to the traffic towards the town<\/p>\n It was then that Petra noticed that he was not the only cop on duty<\/p>\n As on the other side of the shallow roundabout there was a flamingo in her summers dress directing traffic safely away from the town<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Petra and Paul were driving across the Camargue in a rented car It was the first day of their French holiday I tell you that there are only sixteen flamingos in the whole of the Camargue There are far more than that have you never seen them in films and the like It is all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5454"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}