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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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Jul 233 min read
Coco Calling No.287 - When at the Heart of the Storm
On the night that my owner and his wife returned home from Edinburgh, something very strange happened. Something that’s never occurred in...
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Jul 162 min read
Coco Calling No.286 - When Things Don’t Work Out Quite as You’d Like
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...
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Jul 92 min read
Coco Calling No.285 - Jess and Norma
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...
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Jun 302 min read
Coco Calling No.284 - Election Fever!
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...
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