Aren't the babies pretty!, we have one at school, but I am yet to see the young ones. They really like the girders like that, they're nesting on a similar thing at our school canteen, nice shots.
yup I checked with my dinky di Aussie man and he raised his eyebrows (again!) at me and said 'no definately a weird pommy thing!never heard of it,' so I googled it.... Gurning contests are a rural English tradition. They are thought to have originated in 1297 at the Egremont Crab Fair, named after the crab apple, when King Henry III granted the fair a Royal Charter.Crab apples are bitter, and so in celebration of the event, people pulled faces. Gurning was born.
The competitions are held regularly in some villages, with contestants traditionally framing their faces through a horse collar — known as "gurnin' through a braffin'."The World Gurning Championship takes place annually.Those with the greatest gurn capabilities are often those with no teeth, as this provides greater room to move the jaw further up. In some cases, the elderly or otherwise toothless can be capable of spectacular gurns covering the entire nose.
Hmmm.... I s'pose it IS a bit weird!!
Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best
Aren't the babies pretty!, we have one at school, but I am yet to see the young ones. They really like the girders like that, they're nesting on a similar thing at our school canteen, nice shots.
nice series Birdgirl, the chicks remind me of gurning competitions... or is that just a pommie thing?!
Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best
Top shots Birdgirl !!! Righto Hev, you got me,what is a gurning copetition ? :)
OK Hev, I'll bite too
Ray
Sounds like a Pommy thing to me!!
Cute shots Birdgirl, I wish I could find stuff like that
Sunshine Coast Queensland
yup I checked with my dinky di Aussie man and he raised his eyebrows (again!) at me and said 'no definately a weird pommy thing!never heard of it,' so I googled it.... Gurning contests are a rural English tradition. They are thought to have originated in 1297 at the Egremont Crab Fair, named after the crab apple, when King Henry III granted the fair a Royal Charter.Crab apples are bitter, and so in celebration of the event, people pulled faces. Gurning was born.
The competitions are held regularly in some villages, with contestants traditionally framing their faces through a horse collar — known as "gurnin' through a braffin'."The World Gurning Championship takes place annually.Those with the greatest gurn capabilities are often those with no teeth, as this provides greater room to move the jaw further up. In some cases, the elderly or otherwise toothless can be capable of spectacular gurns covering the entire nose.
Hmmm.... I s'pose it IS a bit weird!!
Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best