Anyone remembering Enid Blyton's classic youth books, and the cockatoo named Polly? Oh how much I loved those books - the "five friends" series I must have red two or three times, all titles. Polly was the hero in the "adventure" series, though.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/c...re/6541785.stm
Free ear piercings?
Poor kids.