{"id":1864,"date":"2010-11-04T14:00:31","date_gmt":"2010-11-04T14:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/?p=2023"},"modified":"2019-02-05T10:46:44","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T00:46:44","slug":"its-raining-and-pouring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/its-raining-and-pouring\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s raining and pouring!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">It&#8217;s absolutely bucketing down, which isn&#8217;t necessarily newsworthy unless you live in a place which has been in drought for about 7 years!!! We also live on tank water which means I now rejoice when the skies turn grey and I hear the raindrops pounding on the roof\u2026. even though I have always disliked rainy weather!<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">.. which is also why my heart went out to these gorgeous rainbow lorikeets I photographed earlier during a particularly heavy downpour. They are just so cute I had to share this photo \u2013<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2024\" style=\"border: 1px solid #A8A5A9; padding: 4px;\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/birds-in-the-rain.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"480\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>&#8211; poor things!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><!--more--><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>They were chirping away and preening each other all day &#8211; I think they were really grateful that we have a plant which can act as an umbrella for them!<\/p>\n<p>This bright red headed King Parrot must be slightly tame because it kept coming up and sitting on my windowsill &#8211; it&#8217;s amazing because normally they are so skittish and fly off the minute they see you!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2026 aligncenter\" style=\"padding: 4px; border: 1px solid #a8a5a9;\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/WET-KING-PARROT.4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"312\" height=\"233\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2025 aligncenter\" style=\"padding: 4px; border: 1px solid #a8a5a9;\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/WET-KING-PARROT.3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"312\" height=\"233\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m sitting inside eating a bowl of warm chicken soup feeling quite guilty, watching the poor bedraggled birds outside&#8230;I feel so lucky to have these wild birds popping and visit from time to time but with the rain, they just seemed to want to hang around all day!<\/p>\n<p>They  certainly brightened up a miserable grey day for me! OK, back to my warm, cosy, sewing room!<\/p>\n<p>: )<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"> .<\/span><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4105\" title=\"Teddy-bear-rings\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Teddy-bear-rings.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"157\" height=\"153\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"> .<\/span><br \/>\n<strong>Bye for now,<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Pauline<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6592\" title=\"White-Spacer\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/White-Spacer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"30\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s absolutely bucketing down, which isn&#8217;t necessarily newsworthy unless you live in a place which has been in drought for about 7 years!!! 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