"My wall fountain's making a funny noise... A sort of grumbling sound...".

Well, this sounds like a relatively straightforward task that should end up taking up the entire afternoon... ha ha.

The desire for the soothing sound of trickling water led the fountain's owner to plug it in...

The not so soothing sound of a handful of gravel doing a circuit of a tumble dryer led them to call me... ha ha.

Once I got the pump apart, and found a bottle brush of sufficiently narrow gauge to clear the plastic tubing...

It runs like a dream... you know the ones - where you wake up bathed in sweat and screaming... ha ha.

All jokes aside it's running fine, now.

The hour or more of my afternoon that disappeared while I had to natter about the Royals visiting, well, that was all part of the service, I suppose, ha ha.

I did get a cup of tea out of it, so it wasn't all bad, ha ha.

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Bridge to engine room! ... Full stop!! ...Iceberg dead ahead!! 

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Poor Jack, he thought he'd met the gull of his dreams... ha ha.

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A bit of rain came through earlier on...

Once it had eased off, the wattlebird came down for a bath...

A very vigorous "all over" bath, ha ha.

Obviously he was sheltering from the rain, and that's why he didn't get wet...

Fair enough... Wattlebird logic...  ha ha.

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Waves to Ecar  (Mexican style)

At some point in the dim recesses of the past someone told me that there was a date after which Christmas lights and decorations could be put up.

No, I don't remember the date, ha ha.

I have tried to remember, but all I recall is that last year, in the last week of December, I went to the mall and they already had their Christmas lights for this year up, early... ha ha.

The cockatoos are of no help - if I put lights up in the garden they chew through the wires...

This may be their way of saying that it's an inappropriate time to festoon the garden with lights or it may simply be that they like chewing through wires... ha ha.

I took a two foot length of rope and bent it double...

Where the loop formed, I tied on a piece of string, then tied the loose end of the string to the underside of a bridge.

The birds thought that this was the greatest toy ever...

Thought, that is, because the "upgrade" added a whole new dimension of rope toy playing pleasure...

Version 2.0 - a rope toy with a knot tied in it! ha ha.

Now, the challenge lies in getting the cockatoos and the currawongs to share, let alone play nicely with their new toys... ha ha.

Using cockatoo / currawong logic, the answer is simple - make more toys... ha ha.

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Apparently one of the first things I should do, if I want to take up wildlife photography, is invest in a good camera... ha ha.

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