And now for something completely different

You will have no idea what this post is about. There is no way you could possibly even guess. The title, for instance, gives nothing away. As a blogger of over two years now, and some 500 posts, I realise how important it is to keep it fresh, make it a little bit different, keep the readership in suspense. That's why on Wanstead Birder no two posts are ever the same, and all you internet acolytes have no idea what I'm going to be writing about every March. I mean, if I were to keep on spouting on about the same things, day after day, year after year, nobody would read it, right? With this in mind, and knowing how demanding an audience you are, I have today decided to bring you something totally different to what has come before. Out on the Flats this morning, looking for, umm, something, I espied this:

A different barrage hitch, also without, err, something on it