The Funky Chicken

Back in the 70s in the UK there was a comedy trio called The Goodies - Bill Oddie (now more famous as an expert on birds and wildlife), Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor.  Tim B-T sadly left us a year or so ago but had a very successful career on TV and radio, as did Graeme Garden.  Like those Monty Python dudes, The Goodies met while studying at Cambridge. 

Anyway...the point is, as well as the TV comedy show the Goodies also released a few singles, their most successful being The Funky Gibbon, which I'm informed reached the dizzy heights of #4 in the UK singles charts.  I don't have any photographs of funky gibbons to show you but I do have one of a rather funky chicken, a 'thing' that my wife sneaked into the house when I wasn't looking.  It was one of those 'last shots from the roll' when you don't quite know what to snap but you're dying to finish the film and get it developed so you point the camera at whatever is closest and try not to think about the cost. 

It's a bit Wallace and Grommity in appearance, my wife thinks:

Funky chicken sitting on the window sill, 2021.  Via the 'Blad and 60mm lens, most likely with 21mm extension tube attached.  Ilford Delta 3200 exposed at 800, developed in DD-X and printed on MG Classic fibre paper.  

He's quite an interesting chap, I think - although he's a little unstable and tends to fall over a bit easily if knocked against. He's made from tin, or something similar, in case you were wondering.  I'll have to give him a name - can't really use Feathers McGraw as (a) that's not original and (b) he has no feathers...he's just an egg shape with legs and feet and tail and wings and head.  Hmm...