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Coco Calling No.225 - Knowing God
The other day, I was sitting on my owner’s shoulder watching a programme on TV. It’s something that we do most evenings. The interviewer...

Coco
Feb 1, 20233 min read


Coco Calling No.224 - The Art of Loving and Staying Together
This week, I’m going to say a bit more about ‘love’ because it’s probably the most important thing we will ever hope to experience here...

Coco
Jan 10, 20232 min read


Coco Calling No.223 - The Power of Love
Wouldn’t it be interesting if parrots like me conducted surveys? I’d love to line up a random group of humans and ask them all this...

Coco
Jan 3, 20232 min read


Coco Calling No.222 - Wonderfully Brilliant Chaotic Perfection!
Although some of these words could be used to describe my feathery appearance, (minus the ‘chaotic’ of course!), this title’s not about...

Coco
Dec 29, 20223 min read


Coco Calling No.221 - Seeing Through the Fog
It’s been really cold recently and we’ve even had snow. We just don’t get that sort of thing in deepest Senegal, so I had to follow the...

Coco
Dec 20, 20223 min read


Coco Calling No.220 - It’s Advent!
I always think that humans should get a whole lot more excited than they do about the season of Advent. After all, the word “Advent”...

Coco
Dec 12, 20222 min read


Coco Calling No.219 - Football Fever!
Well, I’m very pleased to say that my team, -Senegal, -made it through to the knock-out stages of the World Cup! Unfortunately, we then...

Coco
Dec 7, 20222 min read


Coco Calling No.218 - The Madness of Money
The world in which parrots exist is very straight-forwards. You could say that we live out our lives at a subsistence level. In the wild,...

Coco
Nov 29, 20223 min read


Coco Calling No.217 - A Parrot’s Guide To The World Cup
The World Cup Finals are upon us! And I have to say that it’s all quite difficult for a parrot to comprehend…….. Image by Elias Schäfer...

Coco
Nov 21, 20223 min read


Coco Calling No.216 - Finding Joy
An endearing fact about parrots is that we’re normally eternal optimists, and just get on with our daily lives irrespective of what’s...

Coco
Nov 16, 20223 min read


Coco Calling No.215 - Taking a Leap of Faith
I often like to sit on my favourite perch and cogitate quietly. So the other day, I found myself remembering back to when I was a young...

Coco
Nov 9, 20223 min read


Coco Calling No.214 - Parrot in Training
Over the last couple of months or so, I’ve been joining my owner as he takes church services. I sit on his shoulder, and my owner...

Coco
Nov 2, 20222 min read


Coco Calling No.213 - A Meeting with Nurse Cath.
My owner recently had a hospital appointment. It was just a routine follow-up after he had some surgery to remove his prostate back in...

Coco
Oct 26, 20222 min read


Coco Calling No.212 - Rockets, Religion and Human Reasoning
Humans often ask me how I spend my time while my owner and his wife are out working. And I certainly don’t just sit on my perch twiddling...

Coco
Oct 19, 20224 min read


Coco Calling No.211 - A Very Special Harvest
Peace in our small village has recently been shattered by a herd of metal dragons which have been marauding up and down our usually quiet...

Coco
Oct 12, 20222 min read


Coco Calling No.210 - On the Conveyor Belt of Life
A great many humans have just returned home from their annual migration which they call their “Summer holiday.” And they’re all coming...

Coco
Oct 5, 20222 min read


Coco Calling No.209 - A Parrot’s Tribute to Queen Elizabeth ii
It may not have escaped your notice that something rather big has recently occurred amongst the world of humans. I was solving all of the...

Coco
Sep 27, 20225 min read


Coco Calling No.208 - Hidden Gems
You know, in many ways, parrots have it made. We’re naturally beautiful but brainy as well. We usually have bright colours which help us...

Coco
Aug 24, 20223 min read


Coco Calling No.207 - Growing Older
During their recent holiday on the Isles of Scilly, my owner and his wife visited the local museum. The exhibits included items from...

Coco
Aug 17, 20222 min read


Coco Calling No.206 - Searching For Treasure
My owner and his wife have recently been away to the Isles of Scilly and this meant that I had some “strange” humans looking after me....

Coco
Aug 10, 20222 min read
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