I did a business Zoom call yesterday from a tropical forest, with a parrot for company. Only realised later how it must have looked.
Yes, I always bring my potted banana palm into my office for the winter (having chopped it down to six inches first), and it then sprouts three or four feet of growth and many enormous leaves. My small granddaughter had long ago provided the paper parrot, together with Peppa Pig and an upside down cat. Not quite the soberly studious impression I'd been meaning to convey.
I've seen others using a background image on Zoom calls, but they seem to result in flicker and a lot of now-you-see-it, now-you-don't. What I really want is Laura Kuenssberg's live view of the Houses of Parliament. Although maybe Edinburgh Zoo's penguin cam would change the tone of the meeting?
BJ
