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Coco
Apr 6, 20232 min read
Coco Calling No.234 - A Parrot’s Guide to Easter
I’ve just seen some young bunnies bouncing around on the back lawn, so I guess it’s nearly Eastertime. It’s funny how they always know...
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Coco
Mar 29, 20233 min read
Coco Calling No.233 - When Things Go Wrong…
Life has an unerring habit of presenting us all with challenges. If you’re a bird like me, then it’s often the weather that causes us...
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Coco
Mar 21, 20233 min read
Coco Calling No.232 - “Ants in the Pants” of Our Faith
Parrots have a bit of an extrovert image to live up to. We all want to be viewed as “top bird,” so outwardly, we like to appear...
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Coco
Mar 14, 20233 min read
Coco Calling No.231 - The Fly on the Window
I’m not really a fan of flies. In fact, no self-respecting fly is ever allowed to come near me! If I see one, I give out a warning ‘hiss’...
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Coco
Mar 7, 20232 min read
Coco Calling No.230 - A Parrot’s Guide to Lent
And so we find ourselves in the season of Lent, -the time when humans remember how Jesus spent 40 days in the desert, both fasting and...
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Coco
Mar 1, 20232 min read
Coco Calling No.229 - When the Church Doors are Locked
Before my owner and his wife went on their recent trip to Norway, I hatched a plan with them. Everyone in Norway speaks English, so I...
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Coco
Feb 22, 20232 min read
Coco Calling No.228 - A Lamp at the Window
My owner and his wife are still rattling on about their recent trip to Norway. And northern Norway is a pretty dark place to be in...
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Coco
Feb 14, 20232 min read
Coco Calling No.227 - Wearing ‘the Right Clothes’
My owner and his wife are recently back from a trip to Norway where they went to see the Northern lights and to try their hand at dog...
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Coco
Feb 8, 20233 min read
Coco Calling No.226 - A Little Story of ‘The Haves’ and ‘The Have Nots.’
I’ve often said that humans are a very strange bunch, but my owner and his wife take the biscuit. All creatures know that if you’re going...
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Coco
Feb 1, 20233 min read
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...
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Coco
Jan 10, 20232 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...
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Coco
Jan 3, 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...
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Coco
Dec 29, 20223 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...
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Coco
Dec 20, 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...
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Coco
Dec 12, 20222 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”...
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Coco
Dec 7, 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...
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Coco
Nov 29, 20223 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,...
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Coco
Nov 21, 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...
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Coco
Nov 16, 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...
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Coco
Nov 9, 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...
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