Tell your wife someone has just phoned and offered you a huge sum of money to buy all your pigeons. The offer is a life-changing amount but he insists on seeing them straight away and the offer is only valid today. You could promise the wife a nice holiday out of it.You have to go to the loft to meet him and his lawyer and draw up a bill of sale. When you got there you waited for a while, he was obviously late. You started to worry it was all a hoax, but he called to say the Rolls-Royce had broken down but he was getting someone to pick him up in his helicopter and bring him over. He finally arrived hours later (problems getting the helicopter started) and looked at the birds. He then decided that they were not really what he was after and the deal fell through. Oh well some you win some you lose. Should get you back in time for last orders.
Paul.