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Jul 8, 20202 min read

Coco Calling No. 111 - Why Be Alarmed?

One of my favourite party tricks is to imitate the alarm clock. Not the current one, or the one before that, but the alarm clock that my...

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Jul 1, 20202 min read

Coco Calling No. 110 - A Modern Day Fable (With A Little Help From Aesop)

During lockdown, I’ve enjoyed reading a collection of Aesop’s Fables. Lots of his fables feature animals, so I feel represented. And they...

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Jun 24, 20203 min read

Coco Calling No. 109 - The Light of Eternity…….

It’s raining again. Thick grey clouds have shut out the Summer sun. And the world continues to feel like a very troubled place…… Covid...

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Jun 17, 20203 min read

Coco Calling No. 108 - Living With The Holy Spirit

Every morning, my owner takes me across to see Nanna who lives in an annexe on the other side of the house. He helps her to get out of...

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Jun 10, 20203 min read

Coco Calling No. 107 - Islands in the Sea

One of my happy pastimes is to read newspapers. Or at least, I do read them for a while until I eventually decide that it’s far more fun...

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Jun 3, 20202 min read

Coco Calling No. 106 - When Things Don’t Go As Planned…….

Sometimes, things don’t work out in quite the way we had planned. Take, for example, this kitchen, where I spend a large part of my day....

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May 27, 20202 min read

Coco Calling No. 105 - Wise Parrot, or “Floored” parrot?

Some time ago, in one of these blogs, I quoted the saying of a wise old Chinese parrot. He said: “A wise parrot never gnaws the perch on...

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May 20, 20202 min read

Coco Calling No. 104 - What We Leave Behind…..

One effect of the Coronavirus is that it’s made lots of us more aware of our own mortality. Of the fragility of Life. None of us know for...

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May 13, 20202 min read

Coco Calling No. 103 - The Garden of God Inside Us All

My owner’s been a very busy fellow, sowing all kinds of seeds for the garden. Some small, some tiny, and some as fine as dust. And it...

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May 6, 20202 min read

Coco Calling No. 102 - Ultimate Love

All living things have been entrusted to mankind for safe-keeping. (Genesis 2:15). Myself included. That’s quite a thought, isn’t it? I...

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Apr 29, 20202 min read

Coco Calling No. 101 - Is There Life In Lockdown?

As a parrot, whether in this house or out in the wilds, it’s a beautiful thing to open up my wings and fly! To fly to wherever the wind...

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Apr 22, 20204 min read

Coco Calling No. 100 - Powered By Love!

I’m not really a great fan of human politicians, but there is one in particular, who has recently caught my eye. And that might be...

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Apr 14, 20203 min read

Coco Calling No. 99 - Easter in Lockdown

Despite the current suffering of the world around, I’ve felt an inner joy throughout the Easter weekend. It’s not that I’ve shut out the...

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Apr 8, 20203 min read

Coco Calling No. 98 - Where is God Right Now?

I normally like to open these blogs with a spot of parrot humour and frivolity. But as things have become so difficult for human beings...

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Apr 1, 20202 min read

Coco Calling No. 97 - All shall be well……

How quickly things can change in life. Especially if you’re a human being. Because humans have all kinds of sophisticated systems and...

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Mar 25, 20202 min read

Coco Calling No. 96 - Re-discovering What Really Matters

And so the world has suddenly changed for all human beings. Life for so many people has been turned on its head. So much that was...

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Mar 18, 20201 min read

Coco Calling No. 95 - Getting Your Reward in Heaven…..

I guess there’s a little part in everyone of us that wants to be appreciated. We want to be acknowledged for small acts of kindness, for...

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Mar 11, 20203 min read

Coco Calling No. 94 - Seeing It All from a Different Angle…….

Not everything in Life is quite as it seems. Or else things don’t turn out to be quite as we expected. The problem is that we often...

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Mar 4, 20203 min read

Coco Calling No. 93 - The Will to Survive and the Grace to Receive

Many of us like to have places where we feel warm and safe. Somewhere we can retreat to in the knowledge that we are sheltered from the...

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Feb 28, 20202 min read

Coco Calling No. 92 - Calming the Storm

When I have a few moments to fill, I like to indulge in a spot of “Parrot Lego.” I expect that you humans think that Lego sets are only...

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