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« Reply #225 on: 21:27:47, 01-04-2008 » |
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 Some of the parakeets we've had in the garden (I think my mind is also trying to make a dim connection with the Heraldic martlet) |
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« Reply #226 on: 21:49:54, 01-04-2008 » |
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Lovely, David  Now we just need someone clever (Kitty?) to paint these martlets green! |
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Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.
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« Reply #227 on: 21:53:51, 01-04-2008 » |
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I've been searching my memory for details of these grey parakeets and I've finally remembered.
There was a specific case of parakeets near my grandma's house in Bromley in the 60s (? I'd have to check that with my dad) and over the years it had been observed that they had interbred with local birdlife (possibly randy pigeons, let's face it there are enough of them) to the point that the population was grey. At least that's what my family told me.
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« Reply #228 on: 21:59:29, 01-04-2008 » |
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over the years it had been observed that they had interbred with local birdlife (possibly randy pigeons, let's face it there are enough of them) to the point that the population was grey. At least that's what my family told me.
Ahem. I think you'll find that parakeets and pigeons are no more capable of interbreeding than cats and dogs. |
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« Reply #229 on: 22:04:30, 01-04-2008 » |
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over the years it had been observed that they had interbred with local birdlife (possibly randy pigeons, let's face it there are enough of them) to the point that the population was grey. At least that's what my family told me.
Ahem. I think you'll find that parakeets and pigeons are no more capable of interbreeding than cats and dogs. Hmm... I have a feeling that this can be filed under 'BS* My Grandma Taught Me'. *Keeping to a theme |
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« Reply #230 on: 22:09:16, 01-04-2008 » |
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That was the very first time we really saw the parakeets in the garden, having only put the feeder up a couple of days previously, now they're in, regular as clockwork, every morning as we're getting up. They spend far longer than any of the other birds on the feeder, and you'll often have one on the feeder (we now have a peanut feeder as well) and up to four more in nearby trees waiting their turn. They're not always particularly patient about it either, and have some quite good scraps.
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« Reply #231 on: 22:11:21, 01-04-2008 » |
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Lovely, David Now we just need someone clever (Kitty?) to paint these martlets green! |
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« Reply #233 on: 22:14:46, 01-04-2008 » |
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Aw, shucks, Ron! I'll adopt it immediately.  (and andy, then!  ) |
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« Reply #234 on: 22:24:15, 01-04-2008 » |
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Ahem. I think you'll find that parakeets and pigeons are no more capable of interbreeding than cats and dogs.
Hmm... I have a feeling that this can be filed under 'BS* My Grandma Taught Me'. I suppose that would be the same folder which contains the records of my mum's belief, inherited from her own mother and only recently disabused, that thunder is the noise clouds make when they bang into each other. |
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« Reply #235 on: 22:35:24, 01-04-2008 » |
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Ahem. I think you'll find that parakeets and pigeons are no more capable of interbreeding than cats and dogs.
Hmm... I have a feeling that this can be filed under 'BS* My Grandma Taught Me'. I suppose that would be the same folder which contains the records of my mum's belief, inherited from her own mother and only recently disabused, that thunder is the noise clouds make when they bang into each other. Nonsense. it's the noise that God makes when he's moving his furniture around? Innit? |
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« Reply #236 on: 23:02:10, 01-04-2008 » |
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Well, I was told that when there was a fork of lightening, it created a vacuum and the thunder was the sound of two huge walls of air slamming together to fill it.
This might be complete rubbish as I've never checked it, but I always found the thought of it very thrilling when listening to thunder.
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« Reply #237 on: 23:12:45, 01-04-2008 » |
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Ahem. I think you'll find that parakeets and pigeons are no more capable of interbreeding than cats and dogs.
Hmm... I have a feeling that this can be filed under 'BS* My Grandma Taught Me'. I suppose that would be the same folder which contains the records of my mum's belief, inherited from her own mother and only recently disabused, that thunder is the noise clouds make when they bang into each other. Something's coming back to me... Some kind of TV programme where the clouds bump into each other and create thunder... Aargh! I'll have to ask my older brothers if they know what I'm talking about. |
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« Reply #238 on: 00:49:07, 02-04-2008 » |
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I was told God was shovelling coal.
(Well they're Welsh on one side of the family....)
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« Reply #239 on: 09:34:39, 02-04-2008 » |
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Well, I was told that when there was a fork of lightening, it created a vacuum and the thunder was the sound of two huge walls of air slamming together to fill it.
This might be complete rubbish as I've never checked it, but I always found the thought of it very thrilling when listening to thunder.
No, that's correct Daniel. There's also a sonic boom from the lightning. |
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