Richard Porter
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The sort of, well, of course, he's been on this podcast, hasn't he, Greg?
So people are well aware of your brother and what he's like.
And the swan thing has thrown a few people off a bit.
But anyway, Alex Twinspark is what this listener calls himself.
He says, hello, you pair of individual throttle bodies.
Following on from this week's swan chat, I can confirm that swans aren't particularly powerful, but they are still quite annoying.
By the way, Alex's email is entitled, my parents' swan is a dick, which is why it immediately got my attention.
He says, during lockdown, my mum started feeding all the local birds.
Being that my parents' house backs onto a canal, this meant a large mix of ducks, moorhens and, among other things, swans.
Long after lockdown, many of these birds still come back every day, including Swanathan, my parents' half-adopted swan.
Swanathan has come by the house every day since, and he is a total dick.
He will come charging up the very long garden, wings wide and hissing, run straight at you and start pecking you until you feed him.
This used to be funny till my dad was working from home in the kitchen with the door open.