Bearded Tit

A little while ago I worked my way through listening to the audio-book of Rory McGrath’s autobiography ‘Bearded Tit’. Rory McGrath is a comic who I find moderately funny some of the time and also somewhat annoying some of the time but because I have a (small) interest in birds and birds form a central part of McGrath’s story I decided to give this a listen whilst walking to and from work and I thoroughly enjoyed the story.

I particularly enjoyed the earlier parts of the story which recount McGrath’s time at Cambridge University. Here he meets and falls in love with JJ, but just when everything seems to be going so well, disaster strikes. At that point JJ completely disappears from the story, something which, as I listened, annoyed me… The later part of the story has McGrath grown-up and frequently enjoying birding trips in Easter Anglia but is is not without tragedy, before the final twist wraps things up delightfully and is a nice demonstration that, sometimes, life can be stranger than fiction!