January 19th
I`m having to work very hard to bring attention to myself at the moment. Ever since Matilda hurt her foot she`s been getting far too much sympathy and I feel I`m missing out! Thankfully she`s on the mend and using her foot better by the day so the focus is back on me and my screaming and attacking.
I do try hard, I tell myself 'be nice Harley, be good' but you know what I`m like. I attack anything and everything rather than mum, my foot toys have taken a beating, there`s tissue paper ripped up everywhere but sometimes she just looks at me and I can`t help myself.
Despite my plucking the feathers I do have left are looking in top form and I`ve grown a nice long tail again which is good.Mum reckons it`s that Animalzone Muesli which has helped. I like to grab my tail in my foot, curl it around and chew on it whilst scratching my head. Oh come on, don`t tell me you don`t have bad habits too?
Upstairs was turned into a Java Tree forest as predicted and I keep seeing pieces of paper all over with 'new Products' written on it so undoubtedly that`s gonna be more work for me to get my beak around in the next few weeks.
Now, I did happen to overhear something very exciting, I think I might be going on holiday!
Last week I heard her on the phone talking about Montana and Cages. Then she was talking of Haiti, Boston, Orlando etc and my feathers stood on end! She must be taking me around the world to see some new places and need this cage or something for the trip. She was going on about Stones and Antiques and shipments, containers on boats and alsorts.
How exciting would that be huh?
January 26th
To get a new toy you would think would be a nice experience, a pleasurable thing for owner and bird to share right? Wrong!
The new toys arrived yesterday and as they`re busy adding them one by one to the website they decide I should try out the Coco Eclipse. Sounds good, sounds posh, lots of fun, coconut fibre, the stuff I love.
So, she approaches with the toy, and hangs it on the bottom of my pyramid toy from one of the rings. Her logic behind this plaement was that I like my leather strips hanging from there, therefore it would be a good place to hang this rather large, rather in my way toy! Hmm! Thin leather strips, large round coconut toy, you`re seeing my point right?
She let me duck past this toy a few times then realised perhaps it might be better elsewhere in the cage, so where does she put it? Below a perch! The inevitable happened, poop, splat!
Out came the toy, dissapeared and came back minus the poop, only for her to decide to remove, yes that`s right REMOVE one of my toys to make way for the Coco Eclipse. Now what one giveth with one hand thou can not taketh with the other and at this point I was not a happy Harley!
My feathers fluffed, my patience was in tatters and I screamed my tiny head off.
Quite stressed at this point she put the old toy back in and the Coco Eclipse..............back on the pyramid toy where it started!!! So now I have to chew my way past it to get to the other side of the cage!! To be honest I don`t mind, I can`t resist that squichy fibre in my beak and while I`m chewing that I`m not chewing my feathers.
I just hope whichever poor sucker gets the large Coco Eclipse has a mother with more common sense than mine! Women!
February 2nd
It`s official, I`m Nuts About Knots!! Have you seen then? The green and yellow (yes, my most favourite colours in the world) knotted rope balls? At first I wondered what the fuss was about, but then when I flung it across the room, rolled it around the bottom of the cage and managed to pick it up in my beak and chew and gnaw like a little angry Rotweiler I decided it`s my most favourite toy on the website right now. I, of course have the biggest size, but then Lucas has the smaller one. I think that`s just because I`m simply better than him!
I`ve been doing some anger management, well, basically I`ve taught mum that if she behaves, doesn`t touch my jumper, sings along to the tv adverts when I want her to, and basically remains in a seated position at all times she won`t get attacked. That`s fair enough isn`t it?
I am also on a bit of a health kick, it`s so easy to let the treats start creeping up and before you know it middle age spread is taking over and you waddle when you walk. I`m loving that Muesli, I`m still having trying hard with my veggies but what on earth is that Spinach stuff supposed to be? Don`t rabbits eat leaves not parrots? Hmm, still debating that one! I give carrots a go, well, I bite them in half at least and I do like my sweetcorn and peas. The Animalzone cereal is lovely on cold days, all warm in my tummy though I`m having none of that plumage enhancer stuff!
I`m also quite open to the idea of the Veggie Twirls, never heard of them? Aha, that`s the joy of working here, inside knowledge, they`ll be coming soon!
February 9th
With all this snow around and apparently more to come I`ve found the confines of the house quite hard to handle and so we`ve bought in some new products this week. Mum says I need something new to entertain me because twice this week I`ve flown straight at her face, then there was the time I wouldn`t come out of the shelving unit and was trying to break the ornaments.
I`ve been caught up in frayed cotton in the cushion cover, another hazard of the home and quite frankly I`m an accident waiting to happen!
The good old hormones have been rearing their heads again and I`ve spent an awful lot of time in the food bowl with Lucas, it`s a sort of no strings partnership we have going on and we always end with a squabble just to set the record straight!
With this cold weather they`ve upped my nut allowance and I`ve seen these huge sacks of Walnut kernels in the stock room, there they were looking all golden and delicious. No not Golden Delicious they`re apples, I said all golden AND delicious. My share is in the tub but we`ve got a limited amount going on sale first come first served so keep an eye out for those.
I`m dreading next week, Valentines Day. I`m bound to be inundated with cards and gifts as usual and if Auntie Caroline ends up round here I could be married off before the week`s out!
February 16th
I suspected a plot on Tuesday when Auntie Caroline turned up on the pretence of buying some more food for her birds. Just happened to need it on Valentines Day? Hmmm! I thouht I`d get in there first and emerged from the kitchen with her usual cuppa along with a slice of gooey chocolate cake and even sang 'Happy Valentines Day To You' which is a song I composed myself!
She ate the cake without even a small offering to me and satisfied that Id got away without any match making she left.
I was then due my time in the lounge where I get to be free from my cage confines and take an hour off working, or screaming, depending on my mood, when I returned to me cage you can imagine my shock to find this............
hanging by my perch!!!!!!! A bright red wooden love heart with smiley face beads twirling from the bottom!! I looked at Lucas...surely not? Nah, he was too busy stuffing himself, head in the food pot, to even notice the heart. My thoughts then returned to Auntie Caroline, I had seen her looking at the hearts but she was muttering something about Oliver her little Hahns at the time and I was sure I`d seen it in her box when she left. Besides that, Buddy is now shacked up with Seve and I don`t think even she would try to pre arrange a threesome!
I started to get quite excited, a mystery admirer, someone actually thinks I`m worth this shiny red love heart toy. My head was spinning, maybe this someone would want to squeeze under the coffee table with me and make a nest, perhaps I`d warm to the idea of being a daddy and this mystery lady would be the love of my life.......
Then, in an instant all my dreams were shattered, 'Do you like your new toy baby?' she asked, 'Mummy loves you sooooo much, happy Valentines Day my sweetheart'.
Sigh!