You could have knocked me over with a feather last week, when I turned up at an address in Great Abington to sweep the chimney and found a large Parrot sitting on the gatepost. I simply just couldn’t believe it, at first thinking it was some form of cuddly toy, but as I pulled up and wound down my wind it turned its head to look at me and said ‘hello’. So, it was a friendly, talking parrot in the middle of Great Abington, who would have thought it. Still slightly incredulous, I asked the customer about it, and he told me that his name was Bruno and that he lived close by in a nature reserve and that they let him out every morning for his little bit of daily exercise. Apparently, he never goes very far from the Nature center and returns for his food. The customer said that he is not a parrot as such, but is a Scarlet Macaw and originally comes from Central South America/Amazonia.