Fred's Electric Budgerigar

The industrialist trying to obtain an Honour for himself; the Earl with a novel tax-avoidance scheme; the retired ladies feuding over the Village Show: all of them, and the rest of the village -- not to mention the British Government -- are affected, one way or another, by Fred, the elderly inventor and general disaster area. "I wept with laughter over 'Fred's Electric Budgerigar'. It is extremely funny and beautifully done."