Sitting in bed, I scrolled through YouTube.
Watching videos of parrots flying, chatting and doing tricks.
‘Aren’t they gorgeous?’ I said to my partner Nimal, then 28.
It was October 2016 and I’d loved parrots since I was a kid.
I desperately wanted one, too.
But living in a house share in London, it wasn’t the right time.
Only, I was sick