Slightly OT.....

neptune wrote:

Ausrose wrote:We have a flock of about 60 lorrikeets that frequent our garden. Although they eat some of the fruit on our trees they don't touch our roses.

Lucky you....

There was nice old lady next door when we purchased our place and she used to feed lorikeets (literally hundreds of them and I am not exaggerating)
. When I was building our house I was up on top of the wall frames nailing down the rafters or something and made the mistake of doing it at feed time. All I heard was the screaming of the parrots and saw lots of green flying past me and nearly knocking me down.

Until I did the wall cladding, the parrots used to fly straight through the wall frames on their daily rush to get fed at 4PM

You sure it wasn't "Biggles" Gary?!!

Good old Biggles. I remember in primary reading just about everyone one of the books written with him being the hero.

But these parrots were more like "Maverick" from Topgun.

The question is who wrote Biggles?

Ausrose wrote:The question is who wrote Biggles?

Capt W E Johns. I had to look this up because my brain cannot remember back 50 years for that sort of info and while I thought that I had read all of the books clearly I had not. There were 98 of them!

Actually I cannot remember too much about the books. Maybe I read them too fast as at the time we did have a bit of a competition about how many books we could read. I do remember the cover of Biggles in Australia. It had a sea plane being attacked by a giant squid.

I do have ask though how many of you out there are saying what's a "Biggles"

Yep, that would be me, Gary. I have no idea what Biggles is - but if there were books involving sea planes and giant squid I really feel as though I missed out! I would have loved that when I was a kid.

Ahhhhh....... Happy Memories!  We will have to get hold of a copy for you of "Biggles" and "Biggles Flies Again!" Zoe!!  Knowing you, you would love them!  

Gary as I have just returned home from firewood cutting and saw this I thought i might add my bit, try this Zoe, and others.

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Balinbear you win a "Kewpie Doll Award"

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Oh. My. God. I would have LOVED those books when I was a kid!!! Freakin' awesome!

For myself - and those of us of a more modern vintage (ahem) - I have fond memories of another protagonist who seems rather 'Biggles-ish'. He was called Cairo Jim, an archaeologist living in the Egyptian 'Valley of the Hairdressers', with his trusty friend Jocelyn Osgood (flight attendant on Valkyrian Airways), Doris the talking maccaw, and Brenda the Wonder Camel.

Cairo Jim:

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Looking back, I wonder if these books are the thing that fostered in me the desire to become a pilot, just like Jocelyn. Isn't it funny the things you piece together about your childhood, when you're older?

Ausrose wrote:Balinbear you win a "Kewpie Doll Award"

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Thanks!!!!!

I am not sure if Biggles was a radio serial however I do remember in the  fifties listening to Tarzan, Hop Harrigan, Superman as well as Dad and Dave. Each episode went for fifteen minutes around about what we called tea time starting at 5 p.m. with Tarzan.

Doug you might remember this one, I think Gary might be a bit young, what about "greenbottle" in "Yes What"

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I don't remember this one, being of the same era as Gary, but it sure is good. In the UK, we had comics with Biggles in.   

David I certainly do. Thank you it brought back some memories of a very pleasant childhood in the Hunter Valley.

SueH wrote:I don't remember this one, being of the same era as Gary, but it sure is good. In the UK, we had comics with Biggles in.   

I can vaguely remember my older brother listening to greenbottle on the radio. Not sure what it was about I would have been about 4 or 5 I guess. I do remember the Good Morning Boys - Good Moring Sir - Good Morning Boys

Balinbear wrote:

SueH wrote:I don't remember this one, being of the same era as Gary, but it sure is good. In the UK, we had comics with Biggles in.   

I can vaguely remember my older brother listening to greenbottle on the radio. Not sure what it was about I would have been about 4 or 5 I guess. I do remember the Good Morning Boys - Good Moring Sir - Good Morning Boys

Good Morning Boys - Good Moring Sir - Good Morning Boys

thats the show Gary, it was about School children and their teacher.

Does anyone remember Blue Hills? My favourite was "Dad and Dave"