I did, thank you mamy, too well in fact, too late the visit the club, but I wondered if 'budgie' had had one or two tailcocks and was celebrating/reeling drunkenly about - hope he doesn't fall off the mantlepiece !!!
He`s back in now and suitably covered and is never allowed alcohol barring the time he swooped into the punch bowl looking for fish and what a sorry sight he was. Though he looked very posh after a rinse and blow dry (all true)