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" - Submissions Editor of a leading publisher