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OMFG! What a nightmare we ended up having! We were hiring a van today. We had an appointment at 2.30pm to take Chris for a health check at the vets. Em was picking the van up at 1.30pm giving her time to come back and get me and Chris for the vet check. Because of the whole bankruptcy thing we had to change bank accounts. The debit card we have now, the car hire place doesn’t except!
So no van. Em had to get to a phone box – her phone had run out of credit. She called her dad to see if she could borrow his car. YES! But she had to get there on the bus first. The bus left town at 2pm and would get her to her dads about 10 past. Then she’d have to come and get me and Chris. It was tight and I called the vets to let them know that we’d be 10 mins late, praying we’d only actually BE 10 mins late. Phew!
She was given the all clear and the go ahead for pet aid – free vet cover for low income earners.
The second reason for the van was for a visit to ikea for a new sofa. I was SO anticipating going there to get it. We’d planned it for like 4 weeks! And had been needing a new sofa for MONTHS! I was SO disappointed we couldn’t hire the van. What a day!
The bird scene has been a bit sparse lately. I think since the breeding season is over, most of the adult birds have gone off to recover. I think I *did* confirm the blackbird that died wasn’t our resident Mr B, as there was a male blackbird in the garden with white flecks on the left wing, so it must’ve been Mr B. For about a week now there’s been no presence of either he or Mrs B.
The goldfinches have been away for a while too, but have just started to come back in the last few days. The robin and dunnock have been absent from the garden as well. The only birds that have been frequenting the garden have been doves and pigeons. As much as a I was happy to save the baby pigeon some weeks back, the daily sight of doves and pigeons isn’t exactly a twitcher’s delight! I mean, look at them!
I’ve put a lot of old photos up that I found in the drawers in the bedroom. Some of them were pictures of Chrissy as a kitten. They’ve been buried for ages and I didn’t even realise we had so many pictures of her as a kitten. Here are two of my most fave kitten shots of her….WARNING: CUTE OVERLOAD!
From our procrastination at putting off cleaning out the fish tank, our oldest fish, Psychs, has died.
He was just over 5 years old. We bought him when I came back from my trip to Oz in 2003. He and Budley were our first fish. Budley barely lasted until Xmas, but Psychs was made of stronger stuff. He survived new fish in the tank, tank changes, a house move. He had progressively been getting ill over the last few months. We’d only just brought him back from the brink with the last tank clean. He’d lapsed again in the last week, but we just didn’t act quickly enough to clean the tank. R.I.P Psychs. We’ll miss you 🙁
Em was referred to this site by a blogging friend. It has photos of cats that look like Hitler…or Kitlers, as they are called. LOL
Some are just FREAKY! Check it out here.
We bought some new pillows as the ones we were using were not exactly plump anymore. Plus after having them for several years, it was probably best to change them.
I was not myself yesterday, as my late night post revealed. I’m normally an eternal optimist. If not optimist, an optimistic realist anyway. I try not to let the “shittier” aspects of life get me down, but sometimes…
It seems too early, but already we have a hedgehog in our makeshift box by our front door. It’s not the biggest hog, nor is it a baby. Em wants to get some food for it, but we have more cats in our patch of wood that you can shake a stick at. But we have a set-up that hopefully means the food will only go to the little hoggy.
This is the most AMAZING image I’ve seen for some time. A cat with a SNAKE wrapped round its neck!!
See the picture and read the full story, here.