On the 12th November 2008, my father appeared in the local Iceland newspaper.

My father has always fed birds, dogs and any domestic pets that he feels could do with some food. In most trips to Iceland he has bought loaves of bread and fed the birds. In London, he would go to a park where other people feed the birds and do the same.

After all these years, his recognition has paid off in the newspaper as the “walking man who has time to feed the birds”.

This comes at the particularly interesting times where even though we all face tough times in today’s economic situations, there are very few who still take the time to feed the birds.

Translation of the Icelandic article reads:

“The act of giving – is very giving –  even in small bits. This bird and the other birds have been pleased by having the bread which the walking man gave them (taking his own time to feed the birds). We should not forget the birds.”

Full newspaper PDF can be found here