Monkey and the Queen
We find ourselves near the top of Cuba Street, not in the Hutt but at the Wellington end, right up its top end. A gang of marauding kaka attack a troop of old style metal refuse bins crowded on the slope of the facing bare lot. Even without their raucous cries, claws and beaks clank and screech loudly in the quiet - its dark, and well before dawn. Welli…