A friend of mine has an allotment, and is always bringing us the jams and preserves he makes from what he grows. It has been a particularly good year, though, and he recently brought us two pots of jam as well as big bunch of raspberries. We were, naturally, thrilled—freshly grown raspberries are always welcome … Read more
It won’t surprise you to learn that as long as I have been a parrot owner, I have also been an avid birdwatcher. I’ve always had some kind of bird feeding station in my garden, after years of battling to keep squirrels away. One thing that it never occurred to me to try, though, was … Read more
I was making a sandwich the other day, and as much I wanted something a bit fancier, in the end it was clear all I could do was a PB&J. Which I don’t mind, but it’s a bit basic. While I was putting it together, though, my cockatiel flew over and started making a huge … Read more
I was out at the supermarket with my son the other day when he started asking me about all the varieties of orange. There is a lot, and sometimes it can be difficult to know which one is which. Our cockatiel loves oranges, he told me, but he had never tried a mandarin before and … Read more
I was eating my breakfast the other day at the kitchen table, and the moment I peeled my banana, my cockatiel emerged apparently out of nowhere and was looking intently at my yellow fruit. I could sense what it wanted from me, but I wasn’t willing to share—this was my banana, and I wanted it … Read more
I was baking a cake the other day and my cockatiel seemed very interested in what I was doing the whole time. I needed to get him out of my hair while I was busy, so I decided to give him a strawberry in the other room to keep him busy. He had never eaten … Read more