Tim Almond

Carol Midgely in The Times

I would like to raise a toast this week to Barney, a blue and gold parrot at a wildlife sanctuary in Nuneaton, who during an important civic visit told the local mayoress to “f*** off”. Not content with mortifying his keepers with merely one outburst, he then turned to two police officers and a vicar and added: “You can f*** off too, w****rs.” The rejoinder made national news.

I don’t know about you but this is the sort of thing that keeps me snickering like a Viz-reading schoolboy for months.

Apparantly, he’s also teaching the other birds and has had to be isolated. I think that he should have his own webcam.

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