Month January 2020

When Ian was looking for something completely unrelated, he found our two lava lamps which have been sadly neglected since we’ve been here, and probably a house or two before that! Needless to say, both were not working because the…

Yesterday we said goodbye to Rosie. It was pretty difficult to do as she was still very fit and well – but with this awful swelling/hole in her gum. Although the vet had said he could see signs of healing…

Rosie went back to the Vet on Tuesday, as we thought her gum was swelling again. The vet said it wasn’t and that he could see the first signs of healing – which was good news. However, yesterday, her gum…

Rosie went back to the vet as a relative emergency on Saturday evening. Her gum had started to swell again and it was back to square one, where the vet had to clean everything out and restitch and put a…

Ian took Rosie back to the vet yesterday – we had planned to take her back anyway, just for a check to see how things were doing. However her stitches had opened up again. This time the vet decided not…

Living with a talking parrot is like having an audio mirror reflecting our life back at us. Ludvig points out the things that we have no idea we say. He’s just started saying ‘oh, sorry, oh, sorry’ which had Ian…

We really don’t see very much of Horace, he even eats best when he is under his duvet. He really is a duvet hound! We just see his little pink nose poking out.  And thankfully, Sam’s seizures have stopped and…

We had to take Rosie back to the vet on Thursday as all the stitches had failed and her gum had opened up again. I had noticed on Wednesday she was looking a little swollen round her jaw, and then…