On the first day of Christmas, my true love sent to me... a parakeet in a plane tree!

In the post-children's stockings pre-Christmas lunch lull yesterday, the Green family and associated hangers on went for a walk in the local park, where we saw this...

... sorry... this!

A parakeet in a plane tree!

Of course, in the original Twelve Days of Christmas, on the first day of Christmas the young woman who countdowns the bizarre list of presents receives a partridge in a pear tree. Or did she?

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To find out more about the possible meaning and origins of the carol The Twelve Days of Christmas just delve into your copy of What is Myrrh Anyway?