Today I'm happy about......

[bobo the clown]

Finding Mallory Park....

Is that near Malory Towers ?? I read all those books once I'd exhausted the Famous Five, Secret Seven, Salacious Six, Adventurous Four, Bobbsey Twins and whathaveyou.

I admit to being terribly let down by 'The Naughtiest Girl' however. Nothing like what I expected.

[Raven]

No idea, there's a tower in the middle of the track but most race tracks have one of those and I guess you mean a different sort of tower

[Verbal]

second (proper) attempt at quitting smoking. Going well(ish) so far.

I'll see you all in the angry thread later.

[TANGODANCER]

They are also good parents. I once had the privilege of viewing an incidence of parental control imposed by these lovely birds. A pair of adult 'Kingies' landed in a tree just five or six feet away from me (I was standing on my back balcony) accompanied by a juvenile. The adults had a chat with the youngster, shepherded it into a, presumably, safe place and then left. :

This is George, Dujon. Our gullible young blackbird. He just can't seem to get the hang of things. The parents fed him up, got him flying (of a fashion) and them pitched him out to get on with it. He just stands around looking quite bewildered about it all and waiting for somebody to come and feed him while all the other birds eat the lot. When the others fly off he's still there looking all forlorn. He'll learn no doubt. He'd better do it quick, Farnworth cats and magpies don't take prisoners.

[Bruce Rioja]

Is he not a she, Tango?

[TANGODANCER]

Is he not a she, Tango?

Don't think so. Females are usually dark brown all over and I think this one is changing from a young bird to adult male. I will however, change that to "Georgina" should you prove right.

[Lofthouse Lower]

Saw that prick Damon Albarn at lunch today, coming out of the BBC building. He jabbered on about 'where the FACK do we eat rarrrrnd ere' and then wandered off, beardy nice person.

So far, so uneventful - then the heavens opened and said nice person was stood there getting piss wet through whilst I smug as f uck walked by with my brolly whistling Parklife.

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Albran 0

[Hoboh]

Saw that prick Damon Albarn at lunch today, coming out of the BBC building. He jabbered on about 'where the FACK do we eat rarrrrnd ere' and then wandered off, beardy tw*t.

So far, so uneventful - then the heavens opened and said tw*t was stood there getting piss wet through whilst I smug as f uck walked by with my brolly whistling Parklife.

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Albran 0

Tight sod, you could have pointed out MacDonalds!!

[TANGODANCER]

Saw that prick Damon Albarn at lunch today, coming out of the BBC building. He jabbered on about 'where the FACK do we eat rarrrrnd ere' and then wandered off, beardy tw*t.

So far, so uneventful - then the heavens opened and said tw*t was stood there getting piss wet through whilst I smug as f uck walked by with my brolly whistling Parklife.

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Albran 0

Tight sod, you could have pointed out MacDonalds!!

Or he could have just looked and seen a restaurant directly opposite the entrance, or "Rice" just down the side street, or even walked a couple of hundred yards left to curry mile?

[Lofthouse Lower]

I know! Mardy southern bell end

[Bruce Rioja]

Was it not simply a rhetorical question?

[Lofthouse Lower]

Nah, it was directed to the lacky accompanying him

[Lofthouse Lower]

Thanks for the interjection, but as someone who, you know, WAS THERE, I can assure you that it wasn't.

[TANGODANCER]

Thanks for the interjection, but as someone who, you know, WAS THERE, I can assure you that it wasn't.

Whoa, calm down, relax. Comment deleted...

[Hoboh]

As an alternative you could simply have shot him!

[Dujon]

This is George, Dujon. Our gullible young blackbird. He just can't seem to get the hang of things. The parents fed him up, got him flying (of a fashion) and them pitched him out to get on with it. He just stands around looking quite bewildered about it all and waiting for somebody to come and feed him while all the other birds eat the lot. When the others fly off he's still there looking all forlorn. He'll learn no doubt. He'd better do it quick, Farnworth cats and magpies don't take prisoners.

It sounds imperative that you get off your bike and find one called Mildred, TANGO.

[Bruce Rioja]

Is he not a she, Tango?

Don't think so. Females are usually dark brown all over and I think this one is changing from a young bird to adult male. I will however, change that to "Georgina" should you prove right.

Ahh, just saw the brown. I have an identical one on my back lawn (darker tail feathers) so it seems that my she is in fact a he then.

[TANGODANCER]

Is he not a she, Tango?

Don't think so. Females are usually dark brown all over and I think this one is changing from a young bird to adult male. I will however, change that to "Georgina" should you prove right.

Ahh, just saw the brown. I have an identical one on my back lawn (darker tail feathers) so it seems that my she is in fact a he then.

Unfortunately, I'll never know for sure now Bruce. Wife called me ou to the back garden this morning and poor old George was there on his back, feet in the air and dead. He'd settled down right next to the kitchen door and the step and just died there. We've been watching him? for several days and, as I said, he just seemed totally bewildered by it all. The male fed him for a couple of days then abandoned him to it. Wife even tried throwing bread crumbs near him (although there's a mobile bird cafe at the bottom of the garden with seeds, fat balls, cocunut shell etc, wife's a bird nut) Poor little bugger just didn't adapt. Had a fair amount of black plumage coming through on his chest when I picked him up to move him.

R.I.P poor young George.

ps: sorry this is in the happy thread, but it was happy when it started.

[Worthy4England]

Today I'm happy about my first game of golf in about 2 years...

Keep an eye out in the angry thread for updates later.

[Lofthouse Lower]

Is he not a she, Tango?

Don't think so. Females are usually dark brown all over and I think this one is changing from a young bird to adult male. I will however, change that to "Georgina" should you prove right.

Ahh, just saw the brown. I have an identical one on my back lawn (darker tail feathers) so it seems that my she is in fact a he then.

Unfortunately, I'll never know for sure now Bruce. Wife called me ou to the back garden this morning and poor old George was there on his back, feet in the air and dead. He'd settled down right next to the kitchen door and the step and just died there. We've been watching him? for several days and, as I said, he just seemed totally bewildered by it all. The male fed him for a couple of days then abandoned him to it. Wife even tried throwing bread crumbs near him (although there's a mobile bird cafe at the bottom of the garden with seeds, fat balls, cocunut shell etc, wife's a bird nut) Poor little bugger just didn't adapt. Had a fair amount of black plumage coming through on his chest when I picked him up to move him.

R.I.P poor young George.

ps: sorry this is in the happy thread, but it was happy when it started.

Have you got a pond?

Hold a Viking funeral!