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PARROTS UNITED
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CHRIS WILTSHIRE
Blessynnges allle        OK I will now revert to modern English.
 
I have decided that it is high time that parrots should have a place on this site. Clearly an INCLUSIVE approach is needed here with positive discrimination.
 
We have had plenty of stuff on holidays buses canals steam traction trains  etc etc so I think the psittacine (look it up) world needs an airing BUT without stupid parrot jokes and that.
 
To that end I shall be asking my personal parrot, Parrotty, for permission to post images of her "doings" for the edification all.
 
The first pics arrive this very day
 
"Bye Bye"   (says Parrotty )
Nov. 16, 2009  (Edited Nov. 23, 2009)
 
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Stuart Stickler
Norwegian Blue is it Chris?
Nov. 16, 2009 
 
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Steve Coffin
This parrot is dead!!!
Nov. 16, 2009 
 
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Stuart Stickler
Dead wot? Steve.

 

Did you mean as in deceased, not longer with us, an ex parrot?

Nov. 16, 2009  (Edited Nov. 16, 2009)
 
I smell a Rat !! or is it a Hamster ...?
Nov. 16, 2009 
 
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CHRIS WILTSHIRE
Parrotty has asked me to say that she greatly appreciates all your kind sentiments BUT she denies ANY Scandanavian ancestry. She does however regret that any Norse or Viking distantly racially connected parrots have died. She thinks they probably succumbed to the cold of northern climes (hence the tinge of blue), and thinks them foolish to have made the trip there in the first place.
 
She also wishes me to impart the information that:
 
NOTHING SUCCEEDS LIKE A PARROT.   She doubts you will understand this witty remark of hers, but she's used that.
Nov. 16, 2009 
 
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Stuart Stickler
Oh! now we've got a punny parrot.
 
Nov. 17, 2009 
 
I want to know does she swallow ... or spit !!
Nov. 17, 2009 
 
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Anthony Eccles
I don,t remember Chris saying it was female
Nov. 17, 2009 
 
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CHRIS WILTSHIRE
Yes Anthony she is a she.......she has proved it by laying eggs for me. She also wishes me to mate with her.
I think it's wonderful that at my age ANY living organism whould wish me to engage with them in what we ( in Mrs W's and my more "exciteable" moments long ago)  used to call "intimate congress".
 
And don't sneer as it's all rather wonderful for both of us, and frees up Mrs W for more important things like polishing the chair castors and planting misembriathimums (whatever they are...even when spelt correctly)
 
 
AND Anthony........no more" IT" if you please....Parroty was very offended.
Nov. 17, 2009 
 
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Steve Coffin
Nov. 17, 2009 
 
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Stuart Stickler
Speechless, eh. Steve?
Nov. 17, 2009 
 
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Steve Coffin
Your right Stu, lost for words!!!!  Do you all remember Freddie "Parrot Face" Davies?
 
Sorry, tea is ready.
 
cheers
 
Steve
Nov. 17, 2009 
 
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John Stickland
Hi Guys.
You are obviously all very misled, observe the following facts:
1. She is not dead, demised, shuffled off her mortal coil or snuffed it, in fact she is not an ex-parrot.
2. She appears to have a compete distaste for Nordic Countries.
3. She is obviously not a Norwegian Blue, but an African Grey, a sensible bird from a country with much more acceptable climate (For a bird of her sunny disposition) 
Finally all I can say is 'Have fun with your parrot', Chris.
Bi to all.
Sticky  
Nov. 17, 2009  (Edited Nov. 17, 2009)
 
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Ken Eynon
Hi Guys,
Added a real colourful parrot.  Have these in the backyard but this photograph taken by the wife on the south coast.  Now off to your birdy books and to name this fellow?
 
Ken
Nov. 18, 2009 
 
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CHRIS WILTSHIRE
Rainbow lorikeet I'd suggest.  Parrotty thinks it a bit flash.
Nov. 18, 2009 
 
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Ken Eynon
Chris et al,
You know your parrots.   Parroty is right, very flashie but probably worth a motza in UK, if you could get one.  The main visitors to our garden are Eastern Rozellas, Sulphur Crested Cockatoos and Galahs my wife has photographs somewhere on this system of each at our bird bath.  Talking of Bird Baths, that is one of the items we made at the Tech whilst in second year of Brick Work and Masonery and possibly my third year at the Tech.   Who was the guy in the blue overalls who assisted the teacher and who was the teacher for that subject  I use to take those lessons before we moved to B. Hayes and the classrooms for this were at the Lower Bristol Road end and separate from the main complex.   Guy in the blue overalls use to help make the muck when we were learning to lay bricks.
 
On the woodwork front with Jones, think the first thing we all made in my year was a 'Seed Label' all that paring with a one inch chiesel  ('paring' think that is how you spell it) for one little Seed Label and about six double lessons in woodwork to achieve same.  The purpose of the excerise was to get use to using chiesels, I think?
 
Well off on to visit the kids in Melbourne in the morning, nice 8 hour drive from Canberra with 37C temps and higher forecast for tomorrow.  It has been the hottest Nov in history in this part of Aust (almost half way between Sydney and Melb) and in land.  Yes and we are still two weeks away from the start of Summer.
 
Cheers,
Ken
 
Ken
Nov. 18, 2009 
 
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Anthony Eccles
So brickwork and masonary were carried out at the old hutments next to the TA army buildings prior to the school moving to Brougham Hayes permanently as well as being used for metalwork engineering?.
As far as I know after 1960 there was no more brickwork or I don.t recall being given a choice.
Nov. 18, 2009 
 
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Steve Coffin
Hi Tony & Ken
 
I think the Tech COLLEGE used to do their mason/brickie training there. We never did either at the Tech school.
 
Cheers
 
Steve
Nov. 18, 2009  (Edited Nov. 18, 2009)
 
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John Stickland
Hi all.
Ken is spot on, we did brickwork and masonry for one year, and painting and decorating for one year, this was in the second and third, but can't remember for the life of me which way around it was. I can't remember the names of the tutors either, but what did 'Clinker' Clayton teach?
We made a bird bath from Bath stone also, mine was at home in the garden until my parents moved house when they retired. I don't know what happened to it then, it probably got left behind!
Didn't do much in the way of brickwork I can only remember having to knock down some fireplaces that had been constructed by the tech coll students, and having to clean off the bricks for reuse. It was OK because they weren't permitted to use cement in the 'muck', it was just lime mortar and came off easily.
Painting and decorating was fun, they had numerous second hand doors all heavily painted, each student was alocated a door and during the term had to burn it off with a blowlamp, make good, prime, fill, sand, first under coat, sand and fill if necessary, second undercaoat, sand and gloss coat. The finish was expected to be as good as one would expect to see on a car.
I'm sure everyone can imagine the noise in a relatively small workshop with seven or eight blowlamps going. Incidentally, some were petrol and some were paraffin. Can't imagine what Health and Safety woulds make of it today! I guess most of the so called inspectors would have a nervous breakdown. Volatile liquids, naked flames, students determined to burn the place down etc.
Surprisingly we all survived the experience and I'm sure we were all better off for it! I know that many of the things learned in B and M, also Paint and Dec has served me in good stead many a time since.
Cant go rambling on for ever,
got to go now.
Regards to all.
Sticky.
Nov. 18, 2009 
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