Tillie and Chip listen on and call out to their friends, the lorikeets. I think if a real lorikeet got into their cage it would probably eat them both as lorikeets are carnivorous.

Tillie gets her sea legs and has finally figured out she doesn’t need me to jump on into her own private bath in the sink! AND she can get out… I wish she’d told me this ages ago! Sneaky little chirper! Chip gets drenched as always and wins the blue ribbon! Congratulations Chippy!

It’s a brand new day so Tillie and Chip begin to plan their mischief early and in advance. What kind of trouble will they cause today? Maybe it will be flapping about, maybe it will be getting shrunk to 1/4-inch tall, and must survive the journey back to the house through a yard where sprinklers bring treacherous storms and garden-variety ants stampede like elephants. Or was that the plot to Honey, I Shrunk the Kids?

Tillie and Chip manage to find their way onto the washing machine, luckily for them it wasn’t switched on! They then do a few laps of the lounge room in search of… a party! They then find that it was in their cage all along! What are the chances!

We needed a way to keep an eye on the American citizens without them knowing. It was imperative, for their own safety of course. We hired only the best. It took years. We designed, built, tested, failed. We persisted. Eventually, over decades, we had it. A fleet of covert technological surveillance devices unlike anything the world had ever seen. We called them, ‘Birds’ – Richard Nixon (1978)

Tillie and Chip get some salmon for lunch and then Tillie plays foot wars with my finger. She got a few in but I think I ended up winning, we’re still working out the points system!

Tillie and Chip decide against having a bath, but not before having a few tricks and troubles for their poor bird parents! Tricks and Trouble… that’s a good set of names for these two!

In deep space, the crew of the commercial starship Nostromo is awakened from their cryo-sleep capsules halfway through their journey home to investigate a distress call from an alien vessel. The fun begins when the crew encounters a nest of happy birds inside the alien ship. A bird from inside the alien ship leaps out to say hello Tillie!

The birds go on an all out adventure running around and if you look closely at the 14 minute mark, Chip flies THROUGH the table! Of course, as always it was skittish old Tillie who set Chip off! Tillie, Tillie, Tillie… what are we going to do with you!

Tillie and Chip have a chat and make lots of happy little bird noises.