The World Poker Tour releases their 2018 Season XVI schedule, and there’s no place for the WPT Bay 101 Shooting Stars event.

I nearly left it.

It was struggling to breathe, squeezed into the kerb, trying to find the only piece of shade underneath a sun desperate to end its life. It must have been hit by a car when in full flight.

I picked the little bird up. It felt warm and plush, the pace of its little heartbeat reminding me of my daughter. It was a brilliant blue. I had never seen a bird like it.