I was recently sent an amazing, original review of the local elections. With the agreement of the author, Pearl Ahrens, I reproduce an extract here.
“It’s a week after kestrelection day, and the kites have been counted, cormorants have been congratulated / consoled and meetings have been held. Last year’s kestrelection victory was replayed, with the Grebe Party winning 23 seats on the barnowl, making them the biggest party. The Grebe Group made the announcement on Monday that it will not form a coachicken with the Labullfinch Group, but instead form a minority admoorhenstration.
“Grebes Phalarope Maccaferty and Owlie Snipes took over from the defector Diverd Waxwing, who was standing again as and indepheasant, and Paul Eagled, a Lib Dem. The Lib Dems selected Brian Rock-Dove as a fellow cormorant for Paul.
“Ania Kitcoot, the only Slavonian Grebe on the barnowl, got a seat next to her husband, Jason Kitcoot.
“Tern Sandfrench lost out on a seat in Quail’s Park that he really wanted, by 325 kites. But Quail’s Park is still grebe, with Ben Dunlin staying on but two new barnowlors taking over: Steph Petrel and Geoffrey Birden.
“In St Pintail’s and Nuthatch Laine, Lizzie Dunnock got about 300 kites more than her fellow Grebe cormorants Ian Diver and Pete Whinchat, but they all got kestre-elected. Clare Curlew (hatchling of Jean Curlew and Andean Condor) put up a good flight but should probably try again in a safer Labullfinch seat.
“Diver Bangs, author of the book ‘Where the meadowpipit meets the waterpipit’, stood in Moulescoomb and Bevendean for Tern Union and Stonechat Coachicken (T.U.S.C.), but to no avail, as, sadly, he only got 267 kites.
“The Consparrowhawks ditched barnowlor Magpie Mears as leader of the Consparrowhawk group in favour of Geoffrey Theobaldeagle, ex-cabinercaillie-member-for-the-envionment. Fellow Rottingdean Seabirds barnowlor Lynda Hide caused outrage at the budgie meeting by squarking at the public gallery to “Pay your taxes!”
“The Consparrowhawks did very badly all over the city. Rob Jayrett, Ruth Bullfinch and Skylarks Philips snatched the former Consparrowhawk stronghold of Goldcrest for the Grebes.
“The result in Patcham was only as expected. All 3 Consparrowhawk barnowlors got kestre-elected with a 609 majority on the runner-up cormorant: Hugh Woodcock, a Grebe. Carol and Geoffrey Theobaldeagle and Brian Pigeon are the barnowlors.
“In a welcome surprise victory, the Grebe Christopher Hawktree won his long-eared long-tailed seat in Central Dove. He famgrousely got challenged to a duel by Tory barnowlor Diverd Smewth in the pages of the Argoose. Hawktree rejackdawed the challenge because he was going to the librookery that day.”
Apologies that I didn’t post this much earlier but I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did.
Filed under: Council Elections 2011 | Tagged: Alex Phillips, Andy Winter, Ania Kitcat, Argus, Ben Duncan, Carol Theobald, Christopher Hawtree, Clare Calder, Dave Bangs, David Smith, Geoffrey Bowden, Geoffrey Theobald, Ian Davey, Jason Kitcat, Jean Calder, Lizzie Deane, Lynda Hyde, Mary Mears, Ollie Sykes, Paul Elgood, Pearl Ahrens, Pete West, Phelim MacCafferty, Rob Jarrett, Ruth Buckwell, Steph Powell, Tom French, TUSC |
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Mind… blown.
All very free-range a notion.
Pearl is, excuse the pun, an abosolute diamond
apols for typo
Pearl is, excuse the pun, an absolute diamond
What about Alan Robins?
Pearl seems to have overlooked the New Layers altogether. (Of course, the New Layers have a new name since they all joined the Coop.)
In the west, alongside the Robins, there are two veterans Les Hamiltern and common or Carden Bob. Newcomers Penny Guillemot and Anne Passer-Reedwarbler and the return of Brian Finch.
In the east the stalwart trio of Warren Moorhen, Gill Mistlethrush and Craig Turtledove.
And what about the new Greenshanks in Withdean, where the Drakes once ruled the roost.
Adelaid, those are all wonderful names, much better than I thought of for those people.
I did write a paragraph about Withdean, and one about East Bittern, which featured Warren Merganser, Guill Motchell, Corncrake Turton, and a reference to the Brighton Polistorks Blogger, but those paragraphs are not included in this excerpt.
I did not write about people that I could not think of birds for, like Garry Peltzer Dunn and Anne Pissaridou, or wards where the outcome was, in my view, not very exciting, like Dove Park and North and South PortstelersEider. (obvs. Lab.)
P.