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I'm so happy you invited me to come to the woods to do some bird watching with you, Fin.
I'm glad you came along, Lee.
It's a very British hobby.
We love nature and the different species of birds.
Ah, that one, for example, is a swallow.
Ah, pass me the binoculars, please.
Oh, can you see how beautiful it is?
Ah, I can see it clearly.
It's tiny.
It must be a young one.
It's good that the mayor has promised to preserve these woods.
Ah, I wish they would stop building shopping centres everywhere.
But preserving all these areas is pie in the sky, Lee.
Pie in the sky where?
These binoculars are good, but I can't see any pie.
No, there's.
There's no actual pie up there, Lee.
In English, we use the expression pie in the sky to talk about something good that we would like to happen, but which is unlikely to.
So you think the idea of preserving these woods is good, but they might end up building a shopping centre here?