Apparently the luxury bathtub is in for repairs. Something about millet jammed in the plug hole, although I explained to the repairer that this simply couldn’t be right. Only water goes down the drain in this household! Honestly, the accusations people make about perfectly respectable conures.

Tillie wasn’t going to wait for the plumbing to be sorted out, so the drinking-water bowl became an economy bathtub instead. It’s an improvised bathing arrangement, certainly, but our little parrot seems determined to make the most of it. The first drinking-bowl bath of many, perhaps?