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  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    We just saw a parakeet while feeding the ducks on the pond down the road. It was blue though which apparently is an Indian ringneck parakeet. Now I just need to find out how to entice it over to the garden. :)
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Be careful what you wish for.  They are very noisy and the last thing you want at dawn, early in summer, when you've finally got back to sleep after baby and toddler duties is then to be woken again and kept awake by their calls and clamour.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Thank you @purplerallim😊 I hope pride doesn't come before a fall. It hasn't been parakeet tested yet. But I'm hopeful.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Obelixx said:
    Be careful what you wish for.  They are very noisy and the last thing you want at dawn, early in summer, when you've finally got back to sleep after baby and toddler duties is then to be woken again and kept awake by their calls and clamour.
    I can sleep through pretty much anything these days. :#
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Parakeet test passed with flying colours. He tried from every angle and after a long time went away empty-beaked😊
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    B3 said:
    Parakeet test passed with flying colours. He tried from every angle and after a long time went away empty-beaked😊
    Great result.
    Were the other birds standing around shouting 'get it up ye', or an equivalent southern term?  :D
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Deffo!!!
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Fairygirl said:
    B3 said:
    Parakeet test passed with flying colours. He tried from every angle and after a long time went away empty-beaked😊
    Great result.
    Were the other birds standing around shouting 'get it up ye', or an equivalent southern term?  :D
    One wonders what the Southern equivalent might be?
    Devon.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Dunno @Hostafan1.
    Of course, in true Stanley Baxter stylee - the phrase can be enlarged upon, and often improved, with the addition of two more words - right [ as in - right up ye ] and sideways. 
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Fairygirl said:
    Dunno @Hostafan1.
    Of course, in true Stanley Baxter stylee - the phrase can be enlarged upon, and often improved, with the addition of two more words - right [ as in - right up ye ] and sideways. 
    Did you watch the SB programme on 5 last night? I recorded it on my trusty video casette recorder so I can skip the ads when I watch it.
    Devon.
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