So I haven't been blogging because, My mind is not very clear. Lack of sleep because I'm compassionately taking care of a baby pigeon (a fledgling) that fell on my shoe and now began trying to feed off it... So, using a dropper and baby bird formula this going well. I also give it Bach's Rescue Remedy flower therapy which is 2% booze from flowers... seems to be happy.
Burgess is probably the most well fed (as far as nutrition) in NYC. Burg, has eaten Kashi instant cereal, Baby bird formula (made for designer birds), Blueberries, and Fiber one, a long with a large amount of green vibrance powder mixed with Vita Coconut water. I feed him every 3 hours. I can't wait till I don't have to hand feed, and can pick up food on his own, and he can fly away... He's still pinfeather's in places... Full flight feathers in others...
One wonders what it would be like to play someone who only takes his food if it's syringed into his mouth or have his blueberries put one by one in his craw so he can swallow them. But won't eat on his own... It's a great character study since with his wings down and crossed he looks like a member of the English royal family who never uses his hands and keeps them across his back. Prince Phillip was renown for this, so much that Michael Caine imitated this in ZULU. This was Caine's first film, and he had never played upper class. So he saw Royals don't use their hands, things are handed to them. Worried about how he would come off, he used to sneak in to read the producer's notes... about his performance... until he read "please fire Michael Caine, The actor doesn't know what to do with his hands." - Read his Biography, it's quite brilliant.
So English Royal Family, Pigeons... Where am I going? Oh!
I always loved Benny Hill's Monologue called BIRDS AND BEE'S
I'd reached the age of fourteen and I hadn't started courting,
And my mum was getting worried about me.
She said, "Dad, it's time you told him all about the birds and bees,"
He said, "The birds and bees," and sat me on his knee.
He said, "Now, remember Uncle Joe and that picnic a while ago,
How he went off into the woods with Auntie Pat?
And how I chased O'Reily's daughter and what happened when I caught her?"
I said, "Yeah," he said, "Well birds and bees does that.
"Dad works very hard indeed, well he got ten kids to feed,
Well ten and seven ninths to be precise.
And we all wear hand-me-downs, and as I am the youngest,
And the others are all girls,
it ain't very nice.
Dad said, "It's time that you got wed,"
I said, "I'd rather drop down dead,"
He said, "Now how about old Maude from Ikely down?"
I said, "Maude? Not bloody likely, she's been out by half the chaps in Ikely,
"He said, "Well Ikely's really quite a little town.
"He said, "You've got to get a wife, you can't go on enjoying life,
Or folks with think you're strange and start to frown."
I said to him, "Look, why should I buy a book?
When there's a thriving, lending library in the town."
One day I found a friend, he was up by Badgers End,
A little pigeon fell down by my feet.
His feathers was flecked with red and at first I thought he was dead,
Then I knelt and I felt his little heart still beat.
I cupped him in my hands and I ran home to my mum,
And she said, "Son, I'm as proud of you as I can be.
You're thoughtful and you're kind, and you've got a gentle mind,
And that will do a treat for your old father's tea.
I said, "You shall not touch my bird,"
and without another word,
I took him in my room and I shut the door,
And then I bathed and I warmed him and I nursed him back to health,
'Cause you see, I'd never really had a friend before.
I taught him little tricks,
like playing dead and picking up sticks,
And the village girls, they brought bird seed every day. Oo!
"Dad, you can't come in," I'd shout,
"Or my birdie will fly out,
"But of course I let the village girls all stay.
Well there was Mable from the stable, and Mary from the dairy,
We had a visit by our beauty queen.
And that great big Betty Mavery, and she's got her own aviary,
She's got the biggest parakeets I've ever seen.
Dad said, "You ought to let him go,"
and Mum, she said, "Oh no,You just want to get some shooting practice in.
"But the vicar said, "My son, it really isn't done,
And to lock up a wild thing, that's a sin."
One morning when it was all still,
I took him up to Badgers Hill,
I lost the only little friend I had that day.
Not a word I said, I just kissed his little head,
And I opened my hands and I watched him fly away.
He circled up and 'round, and then he settled on the ground,
And off he went straight up to the sky.
And then I looked and I could see he was flying back to me,
And then he swooped and he pooped right in my eye.
I thought, "That's bloody rude!" and, "Cor, there's gratitude!"
And, "I hope they never cross a pigeon with a cow!"
And Dad said, "Here, there's I see a caper,
I'll go get a bit of paper,
I said, "Don't be daft, he's miles away by now!"
Dad said, "I know you lost a friend, but it's really not the end,
You'll be married and have a family of your own quite soon.
"Well I never said a word, but you see, that little bird
Has lured eighteen little ravers up to my room!
(Spoken as he leaves stage) So if anyone's got a spare cockatoo or an old crow they don't want,I'd be very much obliged, because you know, I could put them to good use.
PS - Benny Hill did a killer imitation of Michael Caine after they worked together in the Italian Job (the original)
