The Live Parrot Sketch

Margaret Williamson
​In the Fylde
16 February 2021

Yesterday, A Funny Thing Happened to me on the Way to the Theatre! Seriously, I was strolling back from the post office round the windmill (Marsh Mill, 1794, the local landmark), the playing fields and Thornton Little Theatre. Couldn’t help but notice a big brightly coloured Amazonian Macaw Parrot  circling above the fields, while a man below kept calling it! ‘Has it escaped?’ – ‘No, I’m training him’. Suddenly the bird landed on top of my woolly bobble hat and perched there! ‘Stay calm, don’t move, he likes women’ said the man, as I froze. Finally the parrot returned to his outstretched arm, in its beak a few strands of red wool pulled from the bobble. ‘I’ll take him home now’, said the man. And Barry (who wasn’t there) thinks nothing exciting ever happens round here!

An Amazon Macaw Parrot