Apparently I can't use my fire at the minute.
Well, it would be quite hard to use it....
with it being in bits...
Can you see up there? It's a bird graveyard. Over the past, oh, I don't know, 9 years, since we moved in to the house, birds have been flying down the chimney, getting stuck and dying. Unbeknown to me, or at least that was the case until today. One got stuck in the flue, it was scratching about, upsetting the cats, so the gas man came round, got the stupid thing out, only for it to promptly fly back on to the roof and down the chimney again. It's still in there, it keeps peering down through the hole to taunt me. I have a good mind to shove a cat up there, but I'm a bit afraid one of my fat cats would get stuck, or be too stupid to catch the bird anyway.
What a fun day. I was going to the park, with the ginger one, and the picnic quilt (it's quilted, the binding is half sewn on, it just needs handstitching to the back). Now I am too afraid of bird infestation to leave the house. What if we came back from the park and there were a row of birds sat on my sofa?
It doesn't bear thinking about.
(and yes, I do need a chimney guard, and I have been talking about getting one for the past...well...9 years. I might pull my finger out now....possibly)
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20 comments:
Sounds like you need a bird guard on your chimney pot!
Also reminds me of a Bob the builder episode!!
Too funny!!! I can picture the birds sitting on the couch enjoying a lovely cup of tea, LOL :-)
I've got a skinny kitty you can borrow....she's think that all her christmasses had come at once!
Please put me outa my misery....did you go see the quilting lady??????
Sorry I know I shouldn't laugh but I did raise the corners a little :)
I wouldn't be going out either (have you phoned the estate agent yet - cos I woulda lol!!!) I have a teeny bird phobia and the thought of one flapping its mangy wings in my house is enough to need sedation!!
Hope they bugger off soon xxx
That reminds me of that Alfred Hitchcock movie "The Birds"...have you seen it?
I would have to agree with everything..,i like birds but that is just to much craziness. Hopefully the stupid things will stop going down your chimney and dying!
hee hee I have images of little bird heads appearing out of the hole! It would drive me insane!
Good luck! Hope they are not sitting on that sofa!
Wow what a silly bird, flying straight back into the chimney maybe it likes that feeling stuck feeling!!! makes me glad I haven't got a fireplace for once. I do reckon that birdie comes out when you're not in and pretends to be you, sitting at your sewing machine, drinking your tea whilst wearing your shoes and cuddling your lovely quilts!!!!! I really do!
See, if I had read this in time I would have advised you to go to the park anyway and leave said picnic quilt and necessary handsewing equipment in a very visible place by the chimney or couch. That way when you got back from the park all those birds in a row on the sofa can be enjoying a relaxing cup of tea after doing that job for you :-)
LOL, our birds just sit on the pots and tweet or coo. Get some wire up there to stop your kamakzee birds swooping down the chimney.
Once my mum rang me up to say 'Emma, the house is full of robins'. Now, admittedly my mum can sometimes be, ahem, a little eccentric, but apparently there really was a robin sitting on her kitchen table, one in her bedroom and one, would you adam and eve it, on the bloomin' christmas tree. Here's hoping there wasn't too much unwelcome indoor pecky perching as a result of the repairiness x
eeek! poor little things.
This is too funny .
Here is my version : One day my cat was very interested in the extractor fan above my stove top & on closer inspection I could hear rustling & flapping about in the funnel above .
When I turned on the fan the above sounds became more urgent .
Oh s--t , what to do ????
Checked the outside wall vent where the fan directed the air & there was a teeny weeny space , I felt a weeny bird had gotten in & grown to adulthood in there !!
Called the fix it man & to my horror , he found a giant RATTY in there.
Your version of a few innocent birdies sitting on the couch waiting for tea is much preferred !
Dang birds and dang fat cats. I have two lazy cats who would, like your cat, be absolutely useless. Love Lorraine's story, poor you Lorraine that sort of stuff happens to me. Dang rats, cats and birds.
Thats one very nosy bird you've got!
Oh dear! That conjures up an amusing picture - birds on the sofa. We had bees get into the house through the flue once... not funny and very noisy. But opening the window got them out.
9 years.....yikes....thats a lot of dead birds, yuck.
oh no!
but i love the idea of a row of birds on your sofa!
You are so funny! Thank you for my Monday morning laugh and for starting my week on the right foot.
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