chirpy

When I get Arbuckle on the phone, he is giving his stepdaughter a bath and I can hear her chirpy voice in the background over the running water.

"Ryan was a character, chirpy and always had something to say," he said.

It's a hunch I got to stress-test when I spent the day with some chirpy, aspirational plumbers from Hull.

"Both stated... David seemed quite happy and chirpy. They went to the pub on the way home," Det Sgt Robinson said.

The quality of the air is so bad that even the normally chirpy tropical birds are silent, they say.