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Coco Calling No.244 - The Most Joyous Day

So how do you feel about today? It’s Christmastime, and we parrots absolutely love it! We love all the sparkly lights, especially when we...

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Dec 193 min read

Coco Calling No.243 - About Life’s Trials and Tribulations

Sometimes, something comes along in life which can only be described as a trial or a tribulation. Something that we are forced to deal...

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Dec 102 min read

Coco Calling No.242 - The Water of Life

My owner has to change my water pot every single day because I always make a mess in it. I like to put banana chips and nuts into my...

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Dec 32 min read

Coco Calling No.241 - Making Our World a Better Place

We parrots love a good bedtime story. A story helps us to settle down on our perches before we go to sleep. And one of my absolute...

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Nov 253 min read

Coco Calling No.240 - The Journey of Life

Last week, my owner had to make a journey from Penzance in Cornwall to the edge of Exmoor in Devon. It was the day after some heavy snow,...

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Nov 182 min read

Coco Calling No.239 - November Blues

November! Urgh. Definitely not the favourite month for parrots living in the northern hemisphere. And that’s because it’s getting dark....

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Nov 132 min read

Coco Calling No.238 - “Love Your Neighbour as Yourself”

We now have three chickens out in the garden. Yes, THREE free-range chickens which in my humble opinion is three too many. They’re pretty...

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Nov 52 min read

Coco Calling No.237 - Food For the Soul

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...

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Oct 292 min read

Coco Calling No.236 - My Owner’s Onions

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...

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Oct 232 min read

Coco Calling No.235 - The Best Thing That Happened Today

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...

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Oct 152 min read

Coco Calling No.234 - The Night I Glimpsed Another World

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

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Oct 92 min read

Coco Calling No.233 - About the Biggest, the Best, the Greatest and the Least

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

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Oct 12 min read

Coco Calling No.232 - The Best Thing Ever Invented by Humans: The Wonderful NHS

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...

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Sep 252 min read

Coco Calling No.231 - A New Friend For Hazel

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...

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Sep 182 min read

Coco Calling No.230 - All About Life and Death

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...

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Sep 112 min read

Coco Calling No.292 - Making the Most of the Time that we Have

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...

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Sep 43 min read

Coco Calling No.291 - The Day My Owner Went to Prison

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...

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Aug 282 min read

Coco Calling No.290 - On Our Value and Worth

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...

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Aug 62 min read

Coco Calling No.289 - On Trials and Tribulations

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...

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Jul 312 min read

Coco Calling No.288 - The Greatest Love of All

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...

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