Post something good that happened today, Parts Two

[Phoenix]

They should probably clean the shit off your car roof first.

Excellent place to start lol

[Walkie]

Had a fabulous social distancing lunch with one of my nearest and dearest. Haven't seen her in 4 months. We each got take out and sat in our own cars and gabbed while eating. Although at one point she kept looking up slight above my head and I could tell she was trying not to laugh. I finally asked her what the problem is and apparently I had a flock of seagulls sitting on my van. So I opened slowly opened up the sunroof (Just the inside covering, not the glass) and it took them a few seconds to notice me and when they did their eyes bugged out and they freaked out and took off.

2 mins later they returned.  So then I yelled at them that if they're going to make me look like frickin Snow White, the LEAST they could do is show up at my house and clean it.

 
that reminds of yesterday, when i strolled out of the building into the carpark, and there was this old boy , with a face like thunder, scraping the birdshit off  the  bonnet of his car.
"Somebody's put this here" he complained, in all seriousness. "No bird shits that much"

oh yeah? well the car was parked right under a tree and we have loads abd loads  of pretty sizable birds round here: seagulls, wood pigeons, rooks, magpies...

I don't know which of those drop great big splats of green stuff? but i find that a whole lot more feasible than the notion that some other impish neighbour has been going round collecting birdshit, or similar  in  a little bucket  and sploshing the contents over this guy's car when he wasn't looking. Either way , it's pretty clear that my neighbours are losing their sanity. 

[Phoenix]

Had a fabulous social distancing lunch with one of my nearest and dearest. Haven't seen her in 4 months. We each got take out and sat in our own cars and gabbed while eating. Although at one point she kept looking up slight above my head and I could tell she was trying not to laugh. I finally asked her what the problem is and apparently I had a flock of seagulls sitting on my van. So I opened slowly opened up the sunroof (Just the inside covering, not the glass) and it took them a few seconds to notice me and when they did their eyes bugged out and they freaked out and took off.

2 mins later they returned.  So then I yelled at them that if they're going to make me look like frickin Snow White, the LEAST they could do is show up at my house and clean it.

 
that reminds of yesterday, when i strolled out of the building into the carpark, and there was this old boy , with a face like thunder, scraping the birdshit off  the  bonnet of his car.
"Somebody's put this here" he complained, in all seriousness. "No bird shits that much"

oh yeah? well the car was parked right under a tree and we have loads abd loads  of pretty sizable birds round here: seagulls, wood pigeons, rooks, magpies...

I don't know which of those drop great big splats of green stuff? but i find that a whole lot more feasible than the notion that some other impish neighbour has been going round collecting birdshit, or similar  in  a little bucket  and sploshing the contents over this guy's car when he wasn't looking. Either way , it's pretty clear that my neighbours are losing their sanity. 

You should have told that Canadian geese shit every 7 mins so it's entirely possible

[Walkie]

Actually, i think it might possibly have been albatross poop. Now that would be really unusual in the uk.

i say that because of a comical bit of bird behaviour i happened to witness the other day, There was this seemingly undersized crow perched on the the guttering across the road , right next to the biggest fucking seagull that  i ever saw in my life. The thing totally dwarfed the little crow, but  I was too taken up with watching their behavior to think about  how the hell a gulll could have grown that big, though i did notice that it's bill was curiously rounded, and vaguely surmised that it couldn;t really  be a gull, must be something else.

Anyway, the crow kept edging closer and closer to the "gull" until the gull chased it off with a show of agression'. But it didn't withdraw very far, and instantly resumed edging closer. Rinse and repeat through several iterations until suddenly the gull had enough and took off, flying over my rooftop (yep, in the generasl direction of the capark  ) with the little crow in pursuit.

Love or what? 

Now, it suddenly strikes me that the "gull"could have been an abatross.  I just checked out some albatross images, and yeah: it looked just like one of those. Ooooh. Now that's more interesting than birdshit on cars , isn't it

[Phoenix]

Clearly the crow missed the memo on social distancing and the gull did not   

[Walkie]

Clearly the crow missed the memo on social distancing and the gull did not   

but still...heck! the twitchers would have my guts for garters if word got out that i'd seen  a black-browed albatross  in the Midlands, of all places, and didn't take a pic, didn't call birdwatch . just laughed and laughed at the funny little crow that had fallen in love with it 
still, without the pic , it didn't happen *phew*

[Lord of the Ales]

An albatross in the midlands would definitely be unusual. We usually keep ours on a bungy cord so when they reach the yorkshire border it twangs them back 

Weirdly, we do have wallabies on the moors though. I assume they're lost.

[odeon]

Bought beer.

[Walkie]

An albatross in the midlands would definitely be unusual. We usually keep ours on a bungy cord so when they reach the yorkshire border it twangs them back 

  That must be what Scotland were doing  do with their albatross. But they've let him off the leash now:

https://www.pressreader.com/uk/the-herald-on-sunday/20100613/282187942265005

Sorry , I just don't believe that you guys have more than one albatross; but if you twanged him back fast enough, i guess  he could look like a lot of albatrosses 

[Walkie]

Weirdly, we do have wallabies on the moors though. I assume they're lost.

Better let the Aussies know that boomerangs are not so reliable as bungee cords 

[Lord of the Ales]

 

[Parts]

I got a pipe that was jammed in the socket of a slick (really big framing chisel) out after trying off and on since I got it in October without damaging the slick

[odeon]

Coffee happened and saved you all.

[Phoenix]

Coffee happened and saved you all.

Hot chocolate on a chilly morning while I'm curled up in a blanket on the couch is currently happening and this makes me happy.

[SBI_Patience]

The sun is out and I'm happy either way.