cuckoo

That meant Lady Constance had eight full cuckoos to build up a head of steam.

“No offense, but this is all a little cuckoo for my taste,” Gibby said.

The estate is home to rare wildlife, including curlew, mountain bumblebees, lapwings, red squirrels, cuckoo and merlin, as well as Atlantic salmon and critically endangered eels, but the conservationists say nature could be richer still.

Like everyone in the movie, he sounds confident and totally cuckoo.

“The cuckoo clock, the Dutch door, the daylight basement — humble horsemen of the domestic Apocalypse. The VWs, parked in the driveway.”