read somewhere that one of your guides was going to be a parrot.

Oh, well, yeah.

So my great uncle had an African grey parrot that he'd brought back from Nigeria where he was working.

So most of my family were on sea or they were in the Merchant Navy.

And my great uncle Cosmo was working in Nigeria and he...

So he brought this parrot back, which lived for about 60 years.

I mean, it lived through the Second World War, the Suez Crisis, the 60s.

Can we hear Obard, which mentions some of these great people? And Obard is a wonderful word for a morning song, so can we hear that for him?