A Loveless Marriage I Can't Escape
Looking back on my relationship with a parrot called Keith.
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I love birds so much.
My dad was a veterinarian when I was a kid, and I grew up around aviaries and parrots. Here I am aged about six, with my first bird ‘Fudge’, a budgerigar:
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I have no fucking idea why he was call…