Through the window she could see the outline of the narrow garden, the fuzzy grey shapes of a rusting climbing frame and overflowing compost heap.

透过窗户，可以看见窄窄的花园轮廓，还有锈迹斑斑的攀爬架模糊、灰暗的身影和满满的肥料堆。

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But she was amazed to see an African Grey Congo parrot perched on a water butt as she hung out washing in the garden.

然而，当她在后花园进行洗涮时，竟然看到一只灰色的非洲刚果鹦鹉栖息在水桶上。

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The heron is one of the UK's largest native birds and grey herons are also common around garden ponds.

鹭是英国最大本土鸟类之一，苍鹭也经常出现在池塘。

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Just metres away from where the coffin was discovered was something else which, if dug up in the garden, would probably be thrown away - a squashed, grey pot, hand-moulded, not made on a wheel, and with a crude decoration of lines and punch-marks.

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