This morning I awoke with quite a bump.
I practically fell out of bed as Ella continued to squeal. I could only assume someone was dead on the kitchen floor as I scrambled into something resembling clothes. I had just found (ok sat on) my glasses when Ella began to bang on my bedroom door.
'Rachael help!'
Groggily I opened the door. 'Pigeons! Fecking pigeons in the kitchen!'
Ok so our kitchen has never been the tidiest room in the flat; far from it really, but adding disease ridden pests is just going a bit far.
Our kitchen window is broken you see. Has been since we moved in, when we found out that opening the window meant possibly getting clobbered round the head by the window as it wobbled open on it's one hinge. This was not so bad, though shutting the damn thing has always been an issue (something I usually leave up to the boys....ok Sam, Kishan Is barely taller than I am) but recently it's been a lot worse when the lining of the window started to peel off and consequently got jammed in the frame, making it nigh on impossible to shut.
Obviously in the early hours of this morning, the pigeons flew into the window thinking that the pizza Ella had left out looked rather yummy. Sadly the idiots managed to shut themselves in keeping them stuck there until they nearly gave poor Ella a heart attack upon their discovery.
Shooing appeared to have no affect on the ballsy creatures that had invaded my home. It wasn't until I kicked the kitchen chair that one of them was sat on that it took flight...straight into the glass of the window.
Idiotic animals. Soon got rid of them though. Yanking the window fully open I grabbed a tea towel and flapped at them until they all took to their wings and left. Leaving me and Ella to force the window shut.
What a thing to wake up too! Obviously it was all too much for me and I fell back into bed. This time thankfully to be woken up by my alarm and not Ella's shrieking.
What a morning!
Luke knight is probably right in saying they got lost on their way to Trafalgar square. Maybe they needed a map!
(Picture from the sun newspaper 5th feb 2004 Homing pigeons Pexposed)
