Excellent timing!

[FierceKitty]

I had to rush in to the Immigration Offices today to do an almost overdue 90-day check in as a resident foreigner; slow, arduous, and useless activity. But then I was welcomed home by THREE packets of shinies (Pendraken, supplemented by Kallistra and Magister Militum). Just when my morale needed a lift, the industry came through. Thank you, thank you....

[d_Guy]

Much like the Corvidae, we here celebrate each acquisition of small shiny things. Caw! Caw!

[FierceKitty]

An apt comparison; the bulk of my order were Vikings, for whom those birds are important.

[Techno]

There aren't 'arf a lot of corvids around here.  (All sorts)

Driving through the local village a short while ago there were SO many on the telephone lines, it genuinely looked like a scene from 'The Birds'. Hundreds and hundreds of them.
I think they must have been rooks....But I hadn't realised there were anything like THAT many in the area.

Cheers - Phil

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

An attempted murder?

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

A tad literary for this venue Will !

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Never more! 

[FierceKitty]

Fond memories....

[Techno]

A tad literary for this venue Will !

Yes.......But that's the collective noun for crows.

Tsk. 

I have seen a 'conspiracy' of ravens, over here, on a single occasion...where one poor bugger was in the middle of a circle of said birds.
It was obviously 'poorly' and the others were basically trying to kill it....(From owning chickens...and seeing some of the ailments they can suffer from, I can say with some certainty that it was suffering from 'wry neck'.)

Thinking I was doing the right thing, I rescued it from all the others.....But it only lived for a couple of days more....So I was probably doing the wrong thing in not letting nature take is course.

Cheers - Phil

[MartinKnight1333]

I'd like really thank Leon !!!

I recieved my 9th SS recce guys, put them on a board and undercoated them, one sdkfz 251 flew off the board and hit the ground the radio antenna slipped beteeen the cracks of the paving

Leon replaced it for me rapidly !!!!!!!!!

Many many thanks LEON you are a diamond.!

[d_Guy]

Indeed! Polished and multifaceted.

[O Dinas Powys]

An attempted murder?

Parliament?

Senedd (Welsh Assembly)? 

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Parliament it be Rooks, and certainly NOT Welsh AM's !!!

[O Dinas Powys]

Parliament it be Rooks, and certainly NOT Welsh AM's !!!

Well, Phil did write and it is Wales, so local democracy system and all that...

I think they must have been rooks....But I hadn't realised there were anything like THAT many in the area.

Cheers - Phil

Insert hilarious comment about pecking at the corpse of democracy...

Although in reality rooks mostly feed on worms and other invertebrates - it's the long, stabby beaks you know - and the detritus of motorway service stations - where the longs, stabby beaks are again handy 

Maybe it was a planning committee to extend the M4 further West  

[Techno]

Parliament it be Rooks, and certainly NOT Welsh AM's !!!

And owls, as well, apparently.

You have to wonder where some/all of these collective nouns originated......

Some of them just seem plain waffy. 

Cheers - Phil