Walking through the park in Stockbridge (Edinburgh's answer to Notting Hill ) my attention was caught by a poster on every second tree around the duckpond telling people that the "nutritional content of white bread" was not very good for the digestion of the ducks and swans.
Excuse me??? Has it not been the custom since times of yore that ducks and anything else that chooses to make its home in the pond of a municipal park, are fed a diet of whatever happens to be lurking at the bottom of the bread bin?
Seemingly that is ok for chav ducks but not for the superior breed that lives on Stockbridge pond. The suggestion made is to give them crumbs of wholemeal and organic loaves - a suggestion which I suspect has been made by the many purveyors of such overpriced bread in the many delis of Stockbridge!
Just a small point but I would have thought that the nutritional content of the bread that was being thrown to them was the least of the ducks' worries. When I was there today, the local Model Boat enthusiasts were out in force racing boats that could have resulted in a very nasty end to the wildfowl on the pond!
Sliced duck sandwiches anyone - on rye , of course!!
Duck, duck, goose (pate).
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