I remember the coffee advert!
Nice gentle face xx

Quote from: Michael Rolls on Today at 03:59:49 PMFrance has

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We found my daughter a piano teacher. She got on well with the lady who was teaching her and passed a bunch of exams up to about level 8 iirc. We always waited outside. Not because of poor playing, wanting to avoid intruding or any of those things. The teacher had a parrot of neither of us could stand the pong. Not sure if this was all parrots, the woman's inattention to parrot hygiene or what but we found it unbearable. Oddly enough our daughter wasn't fussed,

Well it's a none story really .
If Charles want to support his two nieces with his private money he can.

White wedding in a CoE church, thirty-nine years and three children later,
he died. Widowed for thirty-two years. 

My uncle who was not really an animal man once bought an African Grey parrot cheap whilst visiting Liverpool . He said he should have had his suspicions when he noticed the crone who sold him the bird had two fingers missing !
He should have also been alert to the fact she threw in the cage as well .
Anyhow he brought it home and feeling sorry for it put it in the front room and opened the door thinking it would fly around and get exercise while he went out .
In his front room he had a rather fine desk with leather on top held by brass studs .
On his return he found that the parrot had removed all the studs and the desk was somewhat worse for wear!

In addition the parrot turned out to be a "growler" and made a terrible racket everytime a stranger entered the house .
It lived for years and my cousins were rather afraid that they would inherit it .

Moral don't buy cheap parrots in Liverpool .


Today at 03:14:23 PM
Second parrot story

When I was young and just married my husband and I lodged with his Auntie a kind but rather fierce lady .( This was in Buenos Aires)
Wandering the streets one day I passed a horrible pet shop and there was a cage full of young green parrots .
On the floor of the cage was a woe begotten little chick with hardly any feathers and clearly the outcast . I went in and bought him .
Fierce  Auntie took one look and fell in love with him ! She hand fed him and he spent the day sat on her shoulder .He thrived and became a handsome bird he would fly about and always returned to her and if she asked for a kiss he would hop along her shoulder and kiss her cheek with his beak .

He didnt like me ( who had saved his bacon) and would try and peck me if he could ☹️

Quote from: JBR on Today at 01:42:30 PMI'm a little concerned that when I die I might go to Hell, as I made a few small lies at the time!

Death bed conversion to Catholicism, a quick confession and you're sorted if you really are worried. I must admit to steering clear of churches if there is even the hint of a thunderstorm about