Many years ago, when I was an unruly teenager, I used to have rough and tumbles on the floor with my owner’s pet labrador. Unfortunately, on one occasion, things got a bit out of hand. The labrador rolled over onto me, and I ended up with a broken femur. Fortunately, my owner took me to a specialist parrot vet. I joined a queue of assorted parrots in the waiting room, (which was adorned by a long string of parrot fairy lights). The vet, -a human of very few words, -soon ident