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We have been promised a frost free week by the met office and i must say it certainly does feel much warmer on a morning, so warm that a song bird has decided to take morning chorus outside my bedroom window and he wakes up a little earlier than me at around about 5.00am, needles to say i am then up at 5.30, 'Bless him'!!!!

It does however give me chance to get around the centre nice and early seeing how all the birds are doing, they too get up a little earlier, so by the time i go ...

Sunday Afternoon Gripe :-)
I have received another report from a member of the The Glendell advisory forum, I think it used to be called Parrot Link, but anyway its the ones who constantly attack the zoo, I just cannot beleive how many inspectors we have in this world and just when a paying visitor turns into one?

This one is from someone named Acidus Novus, or thats what he/she uses as a knickname? on the forum.

Although it is not really a negative inspection ...

Sadly a very close friend of mine has just passed away, John Strutt a masive bird keeper and unbeleivable caring man died of heart failure in the early hours of Tuesday March the 2nd at the age of 74.

If you ever met this larger than life character you would know just what a loss to the parrot world this is, he is famous in the Cumbrian area for his free flying parrots and we have worked on and off together in assisting parrots since the 90s'. I was always amazed to see his fabulous ...

From where? you say....are you ready?....it was 10 years to the day that i last went on holiday and guess what? Yup i have just been and done it again, and what a break it was...so good and whats even better is everyone managed very well without me being here, i knew they could but until now just didnt want to leave them with the hassles..but now i know they have no worries with it.

It was a little of a busmans holiday as i still ended up being with parrots for a while within the ...

Has anyone got any old boats they dont need, over 24 hours of solid rain, just got all the paths looking something like and splooosh!!!! they have all vanished.

What made it funnier is pete and Liam were working on the new drainage sytem to remove any water, I feel they had plenty of time to check if it works, or they would have if the they could have seen what they were doing.

Well the met office say it is not only going to brighten up but also increase dramatically ...