Humans often ask me what I like to eat each day. Well, I have a very varied diet. I like seeds and nuts and berries and chillies. I’m...

I’m now some 24 years old, which means I’m a middle-aged parrot. So perhaps I should start to write my memoirs. A kind of potted history...

Have you noticed how parrots tend to be optimists and humans are often pessimists? I’ve commented in the past about how ‘human’ news is...

Photo: Trudy Herniman, Queen’s Nympton One night last week, I was gently rocking on my perch, quietly listening to the snores and...

I used to think that goats were hairy animals with big horns and mischievous personalities. And then I discovered that in human language,...

My owner’s wife has had successful surgery on her benign brain tumour and has now returned home to the flock. She still has a very sore...

My owner’s wife had to travel down to Plymouth for her pre-op. checks the other day. So while she was there, she decided to visit a...

This is the time of year when my owner can be seen climbing up ladders. I used to think that because he couldn’t fly, he was trying to...

JJ Jorda n's photo on Pixabay I spend a great many hours preening my feathers on the highest perch I can find, showing the world how...

Yes, the day finally arrived when my owner went to prison. I wasn’t surprised to hear the news; no, I assumed that his appalling sense of...

Hello everyone! Yours truly is back from a two week stay on the wonderful Isles of Scilly. Lots of humans migrate there over the Summer...

Do you sometimes have a day when things don’t work out quite as planned, or else chaos and disorder seem to rule instead of everything...

Last week, I told you what happened when my owner’s wife suddenly had a fit in the middle of the night.  And there’s a side-story to this...

On the night that my owner and his wife returned home from Edinburgh, something very strange happened. Something that’s never occurred in...

My owner and his wife recently went to a wedding in Edinburgh. I never like it when they go away because somebody else has to look after...

Humans have all kinds of clever gadgets that they use to communicate with one another. This means that they don’t have to screech or...

Honestly! There are some occasions when humans get totally out of control, and this is one of them. British humans are about to have an...

My owner recently met a tree surgeon. When I first heard this, I had visions of some heroic human conducting open heart surgery on an...

My owner has been working away feverishly on his vegetable patch. And he takes particular care of his brassicas because they are a magnet...

Like a great many parrots, I was hatched out to be both vain and naughty; both traits are central to my DNA.  I spend a great many hours...