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....

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

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

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

An attempted murder?

A tad literary for this venue Will !

Never more! 

Fond memories....

Quote from: ianrs54 on 26 October 2019, 08:24:39 AM
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

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.!

Indeed! Polished and multifaceted.

Quote from: mad lemmey on 26 October 2019, 07:20:14 AM
An attempted murder?

Parliament?

Senedd (Welsh Assembly)? 

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

Quote from: ianrs54 on 28 October 2019, 07:53:53 AM
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...

Quote from: Techno on 26 October 2019, 06:51:52 AM
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  

Quote from: ianrs54 on 28 October 2019, 07:53:53 AM
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

An argument of wargamers.

A vendetta of TMPers.

This one could run & run. 

Cheers - Phil.

A muddle of MPs?

A confusion of Corbynistas?

A cupidity of Conservatives?

A liability of Liberals?

A groan of Greens?

A nuisance of Nationalists?

A farago of Faragists?

A bewilderment of Brexiteers?

A plague on all their houses