It’s raining again. Thick grey clouds have shut out the Summer sun. And the world continues to feel like a very troubled place…… Covid...

Every morning, my owner takes me across to see Nanna who lives in an annexe on the other side of the house. He helps her to get out of...

One of my happy pastimes is to read newspapers. Or at least, I do read them for a while until I eventually decide that it’s far more fun...

Sometimes, things don’t work out in quite the way we had planned. Take, for example, this kitchen, where I spend a large part of my day....

Some time ago, in one of these blogs, I quoted the saying of a wise old Chinese parrot. He said: “A wise parrot never gnaws the perch on...

One effect of the Coronavirus is that it’s made lots of us more aware of our own mortality. Of the fragility of Life. None of us know for...

My owner’s been a very busy fellow, sowing all kinds of seeds for the garden. Some small, some tiny, and some as fine as dust. And it...

All living things have been entrusted to mankind for safe-keeping. (Genesis 2:15). Myself included. That’s quite a thought, isn’t it? I...

As a parrot, whether in this house or out in the wilds, it’s a beautiful thing to open up my wings and fly! To fly to wherever the wind...

I’m not really a great fan of human politicians, but there is one in particular, who has recently caught my eye. And that might be...

Despite the current suffering of the world around, I’ve felt an inner joy throughout the Easter weekend. It’s not that I’ve shut out the...

I normally like to open these blogs with a spot of parrot humour and frivolity. But as things have become so difficult for human beings...

How quickly things can change in life. Especially if you’re a human being. Because humans have all kinds of sophisticated systems and...

And so the world has suddenly changed for all human beings. Life for so many people has been turned on its head. So much that was...

I guess there’s a little part in everyone of us that wants to be appreciated. We want to be acknowledged for small acts of kindness, for...

Not everything in Life is quite as it seems. Or else things don’t turn out to be quite as we expected. The problem is that we often...

Many of us like to have places where we feel warm and safe. Somewhere we can retreat to in the knowledge that we are sheltered from the...

When I have a few moments to fill, I like to indulge in a spot of “Parrot Lego.” I expect that you humans think that Lego sets are only...

As parrots go, I’m a bit of a thinker. An observer and a philosopher. But as I sit here on my perch, looking out at the world beyond, I...

We’ve had some frosty mornings recently. And as soon as the daylight appears, dozens of birds flock into the garden outside my window to...