Charlie comes a cropper every now and then…well, almost daily. He backs up on the kitchen bench, taking absolutely no markers for where the sink is, and thus often finds himself in the bottom of it, struggling to stay upright on a large pile of cutlery. Or, mis-stepping from the hand of assistance to the […]
Charlie is only interested in anomalies (and cuddles). Same, same doesn’t do it for him (unless it’s cuddles – that’s different). Ten fingers aren’t enough…he’s only interested in the one with a ring on it. A chain isn’t enough, he’s only interested in the catch. A small […]
Assistance likes to give Charlie a wide range of foods so he remains easy to feed without developing an expensive palate. For a cockatiel, Charlie consumes monstrous amounts of vegetables, and is particularly fond of lettuce – could eat a whole one. Charlie is also fond of sunflower seeds, and being yet young at 13 […]
Charlie is still young, fresh out of the egg at only twelve weeks old. While he seems somewhat dim in rather a large number of departments, Charlie is brighter than most suspect. For instance, having learned to plummet to the floor with the savagely clipped wings he came with (so bad he cannot even glide), […]
What is rock dust and can it help things grow? Keith Gray, chairman of the Rotorua branch of the Soil & Health Association during the 1980s (Organic NZ Jan/Feb 2016), favoured rock dust enormously. He touted it as a fertiliser, but rock dust lacks sufficient nitrogen, potassium and phosphorus to qualify as fertiliser. Its […]
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Theresa Sjoquist
Theresa Sjoquist
