Tuesday, 10 November 2026

Parakeets as Beatles

I'm glad Steve and I found time in our busy schedule last weekend* to take a wander up to (and indeed up) Primrose Hill, NW1. As Loudon Wainwright once wistfully observed:

''From the top of the hill

There's a hell of a view

Houses of Parliament and London Zoo...''

And that's not all you see. A pair of Parakeets** dominated the skyline. I could've watched them fly all day***. And tell me that the red one isn't John and the blue one George (cover of the Help! album).


* Eleanor McEvoy in Hammersmith and RFTC in Camden.

** Beautiful plumage.

** A late breakfast was calling round the corner in Belsize Park.

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