Here is Alfie modelng his new jacket. When he hurt his back a couple of weeks ago, I was going to make him a jacket to keep his back warm. However, when we were at the vets a couple of…

The lovebirds on the side of the cage next to Larry. We have noticed that the lovebirds and Larry quite often interact together.

The weather turned good this weekend so we decided to go for a walk and picnic lunch. We’re still working our way through all the pickled onions we prepared last year and so took some with us, along with cheddar…

“tweet tweet” “tweet tweet tweet” “tweet” …and so it went on. Trying to listen to a supernatural thriller mystery as it reached it’s odd and gripping conclusion is ruined slightly by the lovebirds who decided to have an argument right…

Without a doubt, our oddest animals (and there’s quite a number of contenders) are Queenie and Primrose. Both have very limited sight – they can see shadows and Primrose appears to have some vision right at the bottom of her…

has been through the wars. Last week he choked and it was very serious. He was unable to breath and his lips and tongue had gone blue. Ian gave him what he thought was the dog equivalent of the Heimlich…

We’ve enjoyed a happy and quiet festive season. And of course, we’re only half way through and it’s only now that the festivities really get under way. We went food shopping the day before Christmas Eve and it was a…

Here is our cheese feast ready for the holidays. Also got the lentils for our lentil Wellington!

We put a  ladder in Larry’s cage to he can get to his upstairs perch. He is 100% back to normal in every way, except that he still can’t climb. He’s taken to his ladder and spends lot of time…

I thought this was interesting – our blog from over 10 years ago about the Carlisle floods: