Word: budgerigars
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...confident. This also bodes ill. Women have self-esteem issues. But they also have other-women's-esteem issues. As almost any woman - from the head of the Budgerigar Breeders association to Queen Elizabeth - can attest, it's almost impossible to get confidence right. Too timid and you're a pushover. Too self-aggrandizing and you're a bad word unless it's about a dog, or Project Runway's Kenley. Or Michelle, my best friend until 9th grade, after she won that debating prize and got cocky...
June 3-4: The World Millennium Convention of the Budgerigar Society; in Eastbourne, England. Bird lovers pay tribute to the chirpy little parakeet...
...inherited more than 90 paintings that hang helter-skelter in ill-lit confusion in the library and the drafty halls of Downton Castle. Ten years ago, the major wired the castle for electricity, and now a TV set sits smack beneath Rembrandt's Flight into Egypt. A caged budgerigar chirps beneath Rembrandt's The Cradle. In addition, there is a Van Dyck ("A lovely one of a galloping horse," says the major) Rubens' portrait of Grotius ("Actually, they tell me now it may be a Van Dyck"), and a painting by Rembrandt's pupil Dou called...
Major Lennox admits to a certain affection for his paintings, but once, when a Rembrandt fell off the wall, his chief concern was whether it had disturbed the budgerigar. "I'm not an artistic sort of chap," he says forthrightly. "Don't understand pictures at all." He sold the Rembrandt to keep up his 14,000-acre estate on which he farms, raises sheep, cattle and daffodils. The daffodils are his real passion. He grows 200 varieties, and says with greater pride than when speaking of his art collection: "I don't know where you could find...
...speak of these remarkable birds as "midget parrots." They are, of course, of the parrot family, but their correct name is shell parakeet or budgerigar . . . These remarkable birds . . . can not only be trained to act but to talk as well. My bird, Blue Boy, has a vocabulary of over 400 words which have been distinctly understood by many of his visitors...