Oh Trish that has to be THE best laugh I've had in days because I can
just picture those babies on your sheets.

Ouch!!! for the 'worms'.....Audacious is a good name for Maggies too. I
call the cock bird 'Gorgeous' and his wife 'Mrs Gorgeous' but she is
much more timid and not quite as beautiful as he is, but then he seems
to get more tidbits for his lovely songs.

Bronwyn ;-)

Trish Brown wrote:
We used to have a tame Maggie who came into our kitchen. We called him
'Audacious' - for obvious reasons. Anyway, my daughter was only new then
and she spent her days in a bouncinette. One morning, Audacious thought
he'd try the tasty 'worms' that wriggled on the ends of my baby's feet!
He was no longer welcome in the house!

The children of Audacious used to love swinging off the bottoms of the
sheets as they flapped in the breeze on the clothesline! I don't think
I've ever laughed as much as when watching those foolish magpie children
swinging upside down on the ends of my nice white sheets! They would
fall off and immediately jump up and grap hold again to catch a ride on
a flapping sheet! Hilarious! ;-D