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[webofevil]

About every month or so a hawk is brought in to Parliament to kill a couple of pigeons and scare away the rest. Last week we saw it flying around, so I thought I'd go up on the roof to get a better view. Almost too much better, as it turned out; I opened the roof door and walked straight into the falconer. My sudden appearance startled the bird now perched on his wrist, and in its ensuing flurry it clocked me across the face with its wing.

Occasionally in your life you find yourself in situations you could never have envisaged even a couple of years before, let alone have thought might happen when you were younger. Under that category I can safely file the experience of being smacked in the face by a Harris' hawk on the roof of the House of Lords.

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[chiller.livejournal.com]

Ok, you win at Livejournal today.

[offensive-mango.livejournal.com]

hahahahaa, you should make that an LJ interest! (You'll have to hyphenate it, though, since it's longer than four words.)

Oh, btw, does Hansard use the traditional -ize suffix for words that come from the Greek?

[pipistrellus.livejournal.com]

Excellent. cornfedpig could use this in his sitcom.

[offensive-mango.livejournal.com]

being smacked in the face by a Harris' hawk on the roof of the House of Lords

Beautiful rhythm and good alliteration, there, btw.

[internetsdairy.livejournal.com]

I hope you've had shots.

[webofevil.livejournal.com]

No, I'm afraid we're "-ise" all the way.

[strictlytrue.livejournal.com]

Oh, btw, does Hansard use the traditional -ize suffix for words that come from the Greek?

In my opinion, it should, but it doesn't. Sadly, people here subscribe to the lazy idiocy that "-ize" is an Americanism, or at least assume that Hansard readers will believe this to be the case.

[webofevil.livejournal.com]

Nah, I wasn't that shaken. I just had a beer.



I am, naturally, here all week.

[webofevil.livejournal.com]

I'm delighted to hear it. Is there a prize?

[chiller.livejournal.com]

Um.. YES! It's er ... um ... I'll buy you a pint when I see you! Does that work?

[webofevil.livejournal.com]

I don't know what to say... *sniff* I'd like to thank... everyone who made this possible...

[chiller.livejournal.com]

No hawks were harmed in the making of this journal entry, right?

[webofevil.livejournal.com]

... They could be.

[ex-cornfedpi814.livejournal.com]

I won't be using that in my sitcom.

[ex-cornfedpi814.livejournal.com]

Or to remove pigeons from the garden.

[louiseofthes.livejournal.com]

I don't know what all the fuss is about. Surely it's not the first time you've been slapped in the face by a bird.

[webofevil.livejournal.com]

> Surely it's not the first time you've been slapped in the face by a bird.

Certainly not when they're on some other guy's arm. First time by one who's wearing a ring, though. That's the last time I open a door for a lady. And I'd just seen her diving on loads of other birds. I would have settled for a "hawk"ward silence. Is this thing on?