Danny, I enjoyed the parrot joke and can forgive your ignorance of Mepal. Mepal would have been built, operational and virtually abandoned during your sojourn in warmer climes and its second coming was probably during your period of non-residence. However I was surprised when I typed Mepal in the search function at the number of hits returned. Two which amused me occur in a thread about the Oakington let down.
Thor
and the second concerns a small village where the Great Ouse burst its banks in the great floods of March '47 called
Over. This place has caused great distress to your fellow atcers.