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Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2020 14:44:20 GMT
Hi all, I compiled the following list from a bird's perspective:
Follically challenged head - slip hazard Vet - friend - stand down beak Beak - ultimate weapon of mass destruction Millet - swoon Human - mobile perch Deluxe human - comes with dangly, sparkly toys on ears Super deluxe human - comes with shiny mirror-like screens with in-built perches (glasses) Follically luxuriant head - ultimate preening challenge Finger - ultimate head-banging toy/ace for cheek tickles Water spray - wing-spreadingly, roll-aroundingly awesome Spinach - ace bath when wet/great for throwing around
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2020 19:58:46 GMT
Hi all, Firstly, I've been posting a lot lately - with lock-down I've lost my support network and just need to share things. The flock here has become my sort of stand-in until I can get together with the girls for a natter at our usual coffee & cake hangout So, apologies for my out-letting of my pent-up need-to-talk-syndrome. A few moments ago I cruised into the living-room having made a cuppa, all calm & collected. DeeDee had found a radio station playing heavy rock. "Hi, Mum, I love this! Do I take after Dad?" (She does a bit of head-banging...) "No doubt about it!" I reply. Then, bursting into giggles, "Look at Max!" Max the laid back one is hanging upside down from the cage bars casually nibbling on a spinach leaf from the pot below. Jesse is head-bobbing (apparently liking AC/DC, too ), Siri is doing a fair impression of the lead singer... Well, I spilled half my tea making a quick exit out onto the balcony, collapsed onto a chair and just creased up with giggles. Lord knows what the neighbours must think of me now - clutching my sides and bent double making strange screeching noises I feel much calmer for sharing that ...
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Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2020 13:31:16 GMT
Further to the above...
Night-time - The Tweetlight Zone First morning appearance by Mum - "Wi-i-ild thing, you make my beak sing..." (by The Troggs) Beak grinding - avian chewing the cud. Swing - makes a budge dream of swaying branches in the Outback The Zone - ultimate budge contentment A random thread (usually atop curtains) - brings out The Nibbler in a budge Fruit - bush tucker Pictures frames - "I'm up here, you're down there, there's NO WAY you'll get me in my cage!" New toy - WTC (What the CHIRP?)
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Post by tweetiepiesmom on Jun 23, 2020 15:50:19 GMT
Love those! Some fit my little guys more than others. Tweetie Pie does the beak grinding at night just before bedtime and I love it when he does it - so cute. I haven't seen Buddy do it but then Buddy tends to be a bit hyper.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2020 19:21:18 GMT
a few more... A few budgies singing - The Tweetles Moments of sleek-feathered, wing-twitching flitting around madness - whapper-budge (also common in cats and dogs, hence whapper-dog & whapper-cat) Budgie gaming - Peckemon, starring Peckachu Mum taking down a picture to find the wall covered in budgie poop - a mere peckadillo
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Post by blue48 on Jun 29, 2020 7:26:46 GMT
Your musings make me laugh Cal My bud loves my earrings. He thinks they're some sort of bell but, disappointed that they don't ring, he supplies the sounds for them, right into my ear at many decibels He stands on the open lid of my laptop and we have a game of "catch the cursor".
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Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2020 10:18:49 GMT
blue48, I think you may be a trendsetter, you got me thinking... I reckon some bud-nut could make an interesting line of ear apparel
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Post by Deleted on Jul 5, 2020 18:43:51 GMT
Two buds having a tweet-goss whilst observing Mum carefully assembling a tripodian structure that looks like it might be a walkway of some sort:
"What The Feather?? Is that for us, Max?" "Nah, she's trying her hand at modern art - it's what they call An Installation." "IT'S FOR YOU, SIRI!" Screeches Jesse to Sirius on the other, distant, side of the room. No answer. "Siri???" A strange rustling sound accompanied by chortle-chirps floats across to Jesse & Max. "He's not going to answer, he's ralfo-ing, Rolling Around Laughing his Feathers Off," tweets Max.
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Post by birdguhl on Jul 5, 2020 23:12:37 GMT
These are brilliant, Cal! I think you are in the process of developing a new form of rap or something...
You mentioning The Tweetles prompts me to confess that at any one point in time I have a set of nonsense terms of endearments for the buds. They evolve and change and over the years there must have been hundreds. Anyway for quite a while now I have been playing around with words like sweet, treat, tweet, eat and I run them together by half singing "Hello you sweetle little tweetles, hello you treatle little eatles!" Probably been doing it even more over lockdown. Every time I come into the room - pretty much - I greet them, and half the time I am talking to them without hardly realising I am doing it. I guess it's one of my ways of being a flock member.
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Post by blue48 on Jul 6, 2020 7:04:08 GMT
blue48 , I think you may be a trendsetter, you got me thinking... I reckon some bud-nut could make an interesting line of ear apparel You could also adapt the hair band. My Bert loves standing on my head and leaning right over to peck at my specs. I have to tilt my head back so he doesn't slide down my face. I sometimes wonder if I wasn't a specs wearer whether I would have any eyes left.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 6, 2020 9:17:48 GMT
birdguhl, Now you've got me thinking about writing a rap song - The Budgie Rap? The Budgie Bop? (inserts emoji of bud in shades with guitar & quiff). blue48, what a great idea! Jesse loves glasses, thankfully I wear them, too He usually sits on the ear pieces giving me an eyebrow makeover I hang bells & beads from them (glasses frames, not my eyebrows) - he must think I'm a mobile Alton Towers for buds - he loves to slide-patter down my arms, too. Of all birds I think buds are unique in the mischievous madness they have - cheeky, so much character. I guess I'm now a fully-fledged bud-nut! I'm having visions of bespoke headbands embellished with raffia bows, small bells, shiny things, perhaps a millet spray here and there... (tootles off to find bud-suitable embellishments for head-bud-bands...) I shall returnedeth after I've done a photoshoot of my bonce (I'm having a vision of strutting down the catwalk doing a head-sashay... "And here's Cal modelling The Blue48 Budband, beautifully crafted to match her bird's colours & decorated with a variety of bud-friendly attachments..."
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Post by Deleted on Jul 6, 2020 10:50:11 GMT
the budgie rap
wanna bird wi' attitude? get ya'self a budgie, dude! a bud don't eat a lot o' food a bud'll get ya in the mood for madness in ya 'hood
have lotsa fun gettin' in the loop cleaning up the budgie poop off ya walls, ya threads ya furrrn-itch-a, ya head
first ya STOP for a cuppa tea THINK! reponsibili-ty buds got needs care 'n' lurv 'n' lotsa seed bud's like a lotta freed-om ya have ta learn The Budgie Creed get bud wisdom join The Forum budgie-proof ya home buds need lotsa TI-I-ME to trust an', man, be prepared for DUST!!!
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Post by birdguhl on Jul 6, 2020 12:05:56 GMT
Love it! Next step is to record yourself performing it!!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 6, 2020 13:13:15 GMT
You're on! I'll perform wearing the head-bud-band, bespokely bud-bespectacled & wearing the bud-bell ear-rings. With The Tweetles as my backing band & my best bud-trilling-singing-voice there may be a Summer hi! (But there's NO WAY I'm showing my face, every time I do a selfie an involuntary "WAHH! That is NOT me!! Is it???" issues forth. (I lost almost 9 stone a few years ago, my skin didn't follow suit Anyways, it'll have to wait 'til tomorrow as I have to go to work 27th July 2020 Here's The Beakles (aka Tweetles) feat. Cal (My laptop crashed part way thru loading, so the title page - or Titre in French - didn't load properly... . Titre means something else in English )
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Post by blue48 on Jul 7, 2020 11:58:27 GMT
So have fun and get in the loop Learn to love that budgie poop
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