Good morning everyone 🌞 I'm up early with the parrots again today and am currently sitting having a lovely wee cuddle with Ziggy, who christened the java tree yesterday! In her attempts to avoid being put back into her cage after the vet visit she flew over and landed on it and then tested every branch all the while making her "Tee hee hee" sounds ☺️ She's not been on it since, but now she knows she can escape to it I'm sure we'll see more use.

All the parrots are in fine fettle this morning after their "Adventure Time" yesterday. It's a big ordeal for them so they were tucked up to roost by 5 PM yesterday totally tuckered out. I was a bit tuckered out myself I must admit 😊

I'm off to the post office this morning and then Grognak and Ethera will be out causing chaos in Grant and my co-op BG3 session. Unless my grandson fancies a game from Uni, in which case we'll be doing that campaign instead.

Have a very lovely day, whatever you get up to 🤗

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Good morning everyone ☀️ I'm up early with the parrots and have just finished the morning food prep and cage cleaning session. Ziggy is cuddled up in my hand and all is quiet bar the noise of the air filters and Toby munching away 😊 Peaceful now anyway, but in a couple of hours chaos will erupt as we try to get all three of them in their travel cages in good time for a trip to the V-E-T .

It's always a toss up when to start trying to get them sorted. Some days it can take a long time to persuade certain wee birds to go into their travel cages, and often it results in me just covering them up with a towel and bundling them in unceremoniously ☺️ Parrots are clever you see. They know full well that travel cages means V-E-T and even their crack cocaine dried papaya treats don't always work. We usually err on the side of caution and generally end up far too early, but it's better than arriving late in a panic.

Toby is no bother though. We have the wooden air crate he flew over from South Africa in and I just pop him into that and we strap it next in the front seat next to Grant while I sit in the back between the two girls' cages. Toby has a travel cage, but it's too big to fit in the car if we take all of them so his air crate works a treat. Also picking Toby up and popping him into his box is painless, unlike the scramble to catch the girls 😊

So, it's Big Adventure Day as we tell the parrots. Some Lidl bimbling later too.

Have a very lovely day, whatever you get up to 🤗

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Uttar Pradesh, India
A ringneck parrot flies with a piece of wheat near a wheat field in Prayagraj.

Photograph: Prabhat Kumar Verma/Zuma Press Wire/Shutterstock

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Good morning Fellow Travellers on the Galactic Spiral Arm 🌌 I'm up early with the parrots again this morning and it's a chilly one at -1 C after being a balmy 10 C yesterday.

Ziggy is currently curled up in my hand having her head stroked and beak crunching away. She has been a lot more content the last couple of days. I think the raging hormones have settled down again for a bit. She's not going to be happy with me tomorrow though as we are off to the V-E-T again so she can have some more blood tests. We're turning it into a military operation by taking the other two as well for beak/nail trims and checkups. 🥴

She just demanded I take her to get her medication, but now we are back in the living room she is ignoring the spoon and preening me instead. This is the routine lately. Eventually she'll decide to take the mash and then demand to be taken to her cage for breakfast. I will wait patiently and finally be rewarded with a large mug of coffee like the good parrot slave I am 😂

Plans for today are some Parrot Kitchen and then working on the latest crochet order, which is almost done, but needs final tweaks. I'll probably end up watching more videos of people playing Stardew Valley 😁

Wee reminder that next Friday, the 10th, is the draw day for my latest competition , so make sure you enter before then for a chance to win a free custom crochet toy posted to anywhere in the world. Search the #CazimodoCrochet competition hashtag for details.

Have a very lovely day, whatever you get up to 🤗

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Good morning you lovely lot 💕 I am up early with the parrots today and having a wee Ziggy cuddle before work. Last work day of the week today - yay! It will be crazy busy no doubt, but then I can rest.

In the afternoon when Grant is at work and I have all three parrots to deal with Jadie doesn't come out of her cage. The offer is always there, but she prefers not to, so I pull her cage over to the couch where I sit with the other two. It means there's nothing at her back though and she doesn't like that so I put her cover on just over the top and a bit down the back to give her more security. I started putting the other two covers on too ready for when the go in, but now Toby has taken to going back to his cage, happily drinking water and chewing his paper roll. His door is open and he goes in and out as he pleases, but he also seems to prefer his man cave to sitting with me 😂

The java tree is still unused 😊

Ziggy is almost ready for meds so I'm off to sort that out and start my work day.

Have a very lovely day, whatever you get up to 🤗

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The canary-wing is standing on top of the Jenday’s cage and squawking. Every time she squawks, he answers “OK!”.

Meanwhile, the green cheek is standing on top of the canary-wing’s cage meowing.

Life with #parrots is interesting.

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Parrots pack twice as many neurons as primate brains of the same mass

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Good morning everyone. I'm up early early since the clocks have skipped forward. The parrots are also very confused by the change and Ziggy is sitting on my hand saying "It's okay" to herself over and over. Probably not helped by the fact that when I turned the tap on in the kitchen this morning it made an almighty squeal and then started leaking water. So now I need a plumber, on a Sunday and my regular guy (reasonably priced) is busy with lambing season on his farm 🥴

Ziggy has now started making laughing noises in between saying "It's okay". A parrot version of a nervous laugh I suppose 😊 To be fair, it was a shockingly loud squeal the tap made so early in the morning. Not a way I would have wanted to be woken up either. It hasn't stopped Toby from immediately tucking in to his breakfast mind you 😂

We had a lovely time playing co-op BG3 with my grandson yesterday, although the difference playing with a young one is marked by his hurry to get things done. Grant and I watch all the cut scenes, even if we have seen them before, while Connor just skips through them. Grant rolled a paladin this time and managed to break his oath within about ten minutes because Connor rushed us into a fight with some tieflings that he could have talked his way out of. Definitely interesting playing with a kiddo ☺️

Plans for today are to find a plumber and work on my crochet order. I may watch some more videos of people playing Stardew Valley too.

Have a very lovely day, whatever you get up to 🤗

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Good morning everyone 🌞 I'm up early with the parrots today and have just settled down for a wee Ziggy cuddle after cleaning and feeding them all, in a bit of a rush as I woke up half an hour later than I should have, my internal clock all messed up after the non long lie yesterday.

Ziggy has started greeting me with kiss noises in the morning after I lift her cover, so I must be doing some right 😊 I always get a good night kiss every evening when I put the cover down too. I must find some black thread and fix her cover though. It has a couple of rips in it which means she peeks out when she's supposed to be sleeping, and being such a bossy boots she always has a comment or two when I'm trying to settle Jadie down, generally of the "C'mon!", hurry up variety 😂

It's co-op BG3 day , but we're starting a new campaign today because my eldest grandson is joining Grant and I. He's back from Uni after having a wee operation and is recovering at home, so I thought it would be a nice distraction for him. And to be fair, I am really excited to be playing with him too 😊

Have a very lovely day, whatever you get up to 🤗

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