Its Raining... bread??

There are many things that we will miss when we move back home: the smoking ban, not having a car, having everything within walking distance, the Indian food, etc. But there are of course things that we will not miss at all. One of these things is the pigeons. These stupid birds congregate outside our apartment building and used to wake us up every morning at 6:30am. When you have nothing planned for the day, this is really irritating. We had no idea why these birds would flock to our building every morning at 6:30, until one day we were sitting at the table and it started to 'rain' bread. We started paying more attention to it, and throughout the day, the lady above us just throws slices of bread out her window. Some days its whole bags of bread! Of course since I have to live under her, I don't let her know how bothersome these birds are to us. But Mike and I have come to hate the pigeons that seem to be so popular here. When I was little and watching Mary Poppins it looked like great fun to feed the pigeons, now it looks evil. When we were eating our lunch on a park bench in London, I thought a few portly pigeons were just going to fly up and take my sandwich from me! (The picture on below is one of those birds.) In London they have started putting signs on benches telling people not to feed the birds, but we don't live in London, and every time we walk through George Square, the pigeons are everywhere! I have no idea what the appeal is to feeding these rats with wings.