Canary Update!

I am not making this up!

I got a phone call from Mrs Anjo Banjo earlier today and as we were chit chatting about the snow in her part of the world and the rain in mine - I asked her if she had looked at the blog and read about the poor unfortunate demise of the canary. She started to laugh again! How disrespectful can one get? - BUT - after she told me today's instalment of "The Dead Canary" I was in hysterics too!

Apparently, after the poor dead creature was retrieved from the vacuum cleaner bag, it was wrapped in a paper kitchen towel and placed on the dining room table by the cleaning woman - who had killed it! The owner of the canary told the cleaning woman to leave it there until it could be buried in the back garden.

Mrs. Anjo arrived at work this morning to find the same dead canary (pity it wasn't a parrot!) still lying, dead as a doornail on the dining room table. She assumed that her client - a woman in her 70s and the client's partner - a chap in his 60s - had eaten dinner in the presence of the bird! Mrs. Anjo asked why the bird was still on the dining room table. Well, it seems that it is not in the cleaning woman's duties to bury dead animals, just to suck them up the vac! - Mrs. Banjo said that she sure in heck was not going to be out in the snowy garden in her wellies with a shovel burying the bloody bird - AND - the client's partner was too busy at a poetry gathering to deal with dead birds.

So, there it sits! Mr. Indi suggested that it was "Lying in State" and that this could go on for 5-6 days! I told Mrs. Banjo she should go to the pub and have a wake for the bird. Mrs. Banjo said that sooner or later, the dog would sniff it out and eat it and then the bird would be in the dog - not the vacuum cleaner - or the back garden!

You couldn't make this stuff up!

The photo is one I found on the web on a page owned by Anthony Olszewski - all about canaries.