Charlie loves to be busy and has several favourite toys. One of them is an old pink stud earring. It's metal and glitters - just his specialty. He spends lots of time twirling it in his mouth, dropping it over the side of the dresser, and trying to remove the rubber stopper (he's finally managed this feat). When he's really going for it, the stud ends up in all sorts of places and if he can still see it, he'll get up from where he is and retrieve it to play some more. If he can't see it,
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Charlie is still a baby, not yet six months old, but every day he ranges further out of his comfort zone, and sometimes get's himself into sticky situations. He likes to have a warm shower, and will stand, neck craned, gulping water from a single jet of water he has identified among the many jets. Occasionally over-zealous in this activity he slips off his perch with his wet feet and lands in the bottom of the shower with water hosing his fluffy little feathers flat to his tiny frame. That's when
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Charlie is extraordinarily curious. He simply must investigate everything. If his beak hasn't knocked it and his tongue hasn't tested it, the job isn't done. Amongst the vegetable peelings Charlie experiments with everything and occasionally when assistance plays him for a fool and offers him garlic, he persists until he can eat it without head-flinging. When assistance has finished with the knife and tosses it in the sink, Charlie races over to see how it has landed, before running back again
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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 top of the shower cubicle, finds himself awash in the bottom of the bath-tub and heading for the plughole. Still not up with the play, he runs quickly to where he'll get wettest instead of heading
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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 bowl of paper clips is only idyllic because he can pick out the white one, the green one, and the yellow one. All the rest are the same and of
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Charlie the Commentator – No.6
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