Not much action on the mail front this week - certainly no mails in support of Steve Logan (so much for that campaign)! Only one rather strange mail from an avid reader in the form of a competition with a very tenuous link to golf:
From: Michael Geddes <mj.geddes@yahoo.co.uk>
To: admin@stationmasters.org.uk
Sent: Thursday, 27 November, 2008 18:52:58
Subject: Different Type of Birdie
Hi Jim,
As a regular reader of the website, and all the various pages within. I thought
that some of your members might like to try and identify 3 different types of
birdie [ see below ] You have some well travelled and learned members and this
should pose no problems to them.
In the photographs there are three different families of birdie, in their wild
type form, and also mutations of the wild-types, these birdies are all of the
same genre.
Captain Campbell will buy the person that identifies all three families
correctly a pint from the Clubhouse Bar, and a bonus pint if the scientific
names for these birdies is given.
The photographs were taken by myself and not your official photographer, some of
these birds are naturally red eyed, so no smart comments about this please !
On a final note, your official photographer, Mr Geddes Snr is not open to
bribery from any participants trying to source the correct answers in an attempt
to get that much sought after pint from Captain Campbell.
Yours aviculturally
Mike Geddes
P.s. Has Tommy's gardening tips been shelved due to his pending disciplinary
hearing, after his antics at your annual smoker ?
BIRD 1 BIRD 2
BIRD 3 BIRD 4
IF YOU THINK YOU KNOW THE ANSWERS - E MAIL TO THE USUAL ADDRESS
Dear Mike, Thanks very much much for this rather enthralling quiz. We're sure many of our members will take up your challenge with gusto. We are however less sure about the prize you have offered as Ex Captain Campbell has never knowingly offered free drink to anyone! We are also concerned with regard to the ethics surrounding this particular quiz with mentions of mutations and genres conjuring up images of Dolly the Sheep or some other genetically engineered entity! We are sure however that these particular parroty type things are very happy in their barbed wire and chipboard hutches rather than soaring free in some tropical environment of their origin. Anyway Mike, with regard to your query in respect of Tommy's Gardening Tips, yes it is true that the erstwhile plumber is still under somewhat of a 'dark cloud' because of his unruly behaviour, but that is not the reason his column was discontinued - we did in fact discover that he knows very little about gardening! You will be please to learn that Vice Captain, Captain Holland, a horticultural expert, intends to re-introduce the column in the near future - so keep logging on!
Yours freddydavisly,
THE COMMITTEE.