Blueberry

Well sad news on the budgie front. Poor Blueberry is ill and probably hasn't got much longer to live. She has kidney failure or something similar which is not surprising since she has never been the healthiest of budgies. I didn't expect her to have a long life since the day I brought her home from the pet shop. The store has gone from being a fairly good place to buy pets to one with animals and birds all crowded together. They seem to be more interested in making as much money as possible and less so in keeping healthy stock. No doubt the suppliers of the pets are just mass producing them. Blueberry's general health has never been great.

Here she is snuggled up to her pal 'Sammy'. It's quite sad to see him a bit confused about why she is sleeping all the time and not to her usual mischief.

There isn't really anything the Vet can do. We tried anitbiotics just on the off-chance she had an infection but they have had no effect.

Budgies

Here are my two pals!

Sammy and his mate Blueberry. Pets are great and small pets are not just for children. My quirky pair are so funny to watch. Sammy here (the yellow one) is making claim to the millet, but it's always ladies first in the budgie world whether he likes it or not!

Bag Size

Now I am beginning to realise why 'organiser bags' were around years ago. I owned one of these when I was twenty five but most of the sections were unused. Having one of these bags now would be so good, provided it was very large and able to hold the multitude of things I need to carry with me.

Now I have three pairs of specs. One pair for reading, a second for middle distance so that I can see a computer screen and the third pair for distance, necessary for reading the numbers on buses. I also carry a mobile telephone so that I can type notes into the memo pad to help my memory. A huge bottle of water is required to replace the amount of water I lose when my internal boiler switches itself on even although the temperature outside is in single figures. A small flask of coffee also goes with me sometimes to help my energy supplies.

So I need a big organiser bag with a pouch on each side deep enough to hold the water bottle on one side and the tiny coffee flask on the other. That way if one decides to suddenly spring a leak the other contents of my bag won't get soaked.

Washing Clothes

Here's my first blog. All about washing machines! Washing machines going round and round making you very cross-eyed! Today I spent hours working my way through a load of washing. Wow, seems so interesting. It was actually quite relaxing. Whilst the washing machine was working it's miracles on each load, I could carry out various much needed tasks suck as dyeing my hair.

Dyeing your hair is fine unless someone calls at the door, which is guaranteed to happen! Anyway, my hair turned out good despite the dye being on it for about an hour or so.

A successful afternoon's work done and a new hair do at the same time.

Bye for now
Debbie