Huh! Yes, I know.. it's a strange title is it not. Let me explain. Are you sitting comfortably, then I'll begin.. at the beginning or rather at the beginning of THIS tale!
You know she has these dear friends, Michele and Peter who live in Pewsey, it is Peters' head upon which I like to sit and I was mighty happy to see them both again this year when they called into see us on Easter Monday.
For Christmas last year they gave us a stained glass African Grey parrot, I did tell you all about it but you might have forgotten. When she unwrapped it, she thought to herself " I've got one of these.. or am I bonkers.. if I have one, where is it?"
"Don't look at me, I have never seen anything like that before in my life", I said and got on with doing what I was doing. She hung it on the wall next to Goosie Head, my perch in YumYum HQ.
Today she started going through one side of the huge cupboard in our bedroom. It was full to the brim of stuff, starting one shelf at a time she went through it and found real treasures! Like the rest of the oriental laquer that Constance gave her in the late 80's and some very old French cartoons that Hugo gave her about forty five years ago. That was just the top shelf!
Next one down.. computer stuff, camera equipment.. all carefully packed in boxes and she moved all of that into our sitting room as it should not be sent to storage.
Third shelf.. "hum GeeGee, what's in this old bank box I wonder? She pulled it out and put it down onto the floor. Oh, goodness me.. all of Bills' letters. Then a very fat A4 file.. "oh lordy, mama's financial stuff!", sadly nothing in writing by evil bastard brother in Paris.. a tiny envelope sellotaped shut with her scrawly writing on it saying 'Boucheron keyring'.. this was a present from Bill in the early 80's. It needs to be repaired by Boucheron, she'd put it in the box for safe keeping.
Fourth shelf.. I did tell you this is a huge cupboard!
A bank box full of old files, most of which, maybe all of which can be tossed but she'll check them tomorrow. A plastic unit of three drawers. The top drawer had boxes of her business cards in it and a card file with other peoples' cards in it. The second drawer had something wrapped up in bubble wrap and tissue paper. It was stiff and quite long. She opened it and I swear that her jaw dropped.
For there, in her hands, was another stained glass African Grey parrot. And looking at him, she remembered exactly who had given it to her and when.
Dagga Parrot came into her life in the month of May 1988. In around '89 or '90, Madge (mother of Peter) came back from Kenya, where the family lived, to stay in England for a while, she fell in love with Dagga and he fell with her. The next time she came back to stay in England, she brought a stained glass African Grey parrot with her.
He lived in the YumYum HQ in exactly the same place as the new one has been hanging since Christmas. Then in 2001, the whole of the tiny room was renovated and she wrapped him up most carefully in tissue paper and bubble wrap and put him safely away.. too safely.. because she forgot to take him out again!
She washed them carefully and polished the glass until it shone, the two parrots are now hanging on the wall and a cupboard door in YumYum HQ looking at each other. Darling Dagga was a bigger parrot than I am and the one that Madge gave her (because of Dagga) is slightly the bigger of the two.
So you see, she does have three African Grey Parrots but only one that flies. What treasures she has found and she hasn't even finished this side and there's the entire other side of this cupboard to go through, who knows what she'll find in there!
And it rained whilst she was doing this and the forecast is for more rain tomorrow, at this rate, she'll have both sides of the cupboard sorted out, the valuable stuff will stay with us and the rest can go into storage whilst the renovation work is being done.
She's got a smile on her face and we're going to say "Goodnight" and go to sleep for it's very late.
GeeGee Parrot.
April 14th, 2016.
PostScript: Still BUBs' birthday..
You know she has these dear friends, Michele and Peter who live in Pewsey, it is Peters' head upon which I like to sit and I was mighty happy to see them both again this year when they called into see us on Easter Monday.
For Christmas last year they gave us a stained glass African Grey parrot, I did tell you all about it but you might have forgotten. When she unwrapped it, she thought to herself " I've got one of these.. or am I bonkers.. if I have one, where is it?"
"Don't look at me, I have never seen anything like that before in my life", I said and got on with doing what I was doing. She hung it on the wall next to Goosie Head, my perch in YumYum HQ.
Today she started going through one side of the huge cupboard in our bedroom. It was full to the brim of stuff, starting one shelf at a time she went through it and found real treasures! Like the rest of the oriental laquer that Constance gave her in the late 80's and some very old French cartoons that Hugo gave her about forty five years ago. That was just the top shelf!
Next one down.. computer stuff, camera equipment.. all carefully packed in boxes and she moved all of that into our sitting room as it should not be sent to storage.
Third shelf.. "hum GeeGee, what's in this old bank box I wonder? She pulled it out and put it down onto the floor. Oh, goodness me.. all of Bills' letters. Then a very fat A4 file.. "oh lordy, mama's financial stuff!", sadly nothing in writing by evil bastard brother in Paris.. a tiny envelope sellotaped shut with her scrawly writing on it saying 'Boucheron keyring'.. this was a present from Bill in the early 80's. It needs to be repaired by Boucheron, she'd put it in the box for safe keeping.
Fourth shelf.. I did tell you this is a huge cupboard!
A bank box full of old files, most of which, maybe all of which can be tossed but she'll check them tomorrow. A plastic unit of three drawers. The top drawer had boxes of her business cards in it and a card file with other peoples' cards in it. The second drawer had something wrapped up in bubble wrap and tissue paper. It was stiff and quite long. She opened it and I swear that her jaw dropped.
For there, in her hands, was another stained glass African Grey parrot. And looking at him, she remembered exactly who had given it to her and when.
Dagga Parrot came into her life in the month of May 1988. In around '89 or '90, Madge (mother of Peter) came back from Kenya, where the family lived, to stay in England for a while, she fell in love with Dagga and he fell with her. The next time she came back to stay in England, she brought a stained glass African Grey parrot with her.
He lived in the YumYum HQ in exactly the same place as the new one has been hanging since Christmas. Then in 2001, the whole of the tiny room was renovated and she wrapped him up most carefully in tissue paper and bubble wrap and put him safely away.. too safely.. because she forgot to take him out again!
She washed them carefully and polished the glass until it shone, the two parrots are now hanging on the wall and a cupboard door in YumYum HQ looking at each other. Darling Dagga was a bigger parrot than I am and the one that Madge gave her (because of Dagga) is slightly the bigger of the two.
So you see, she does have three African Grey Parrots but only one that flies. What treasures she has found and she hasn't even finished this side and there's the entire other side of this cupboard to go through, who knows what she'll find in there!
And it rained whilst she was doing this and the forecast is for more rain tomorrow, at this rate, she'll have both sides of the cupboard sorted out, the valuable stuff will stay with us and the rest can go into storage whilst the renovation work is being done.
She's got a smile on her face and we're going to say "Goodnight" and go to sleep for it's very late.
GeeGee Parrot.
April 14th, 2016.
PostScript: Still BUBs' birthday..
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