back to normal.

LSP is home, Work is finished for the week, and I have 5 days off. ahhh.

I have become a friend of latitude. its fantastic, I was able to track LSP all the way down to the house.

I had a hot cup of tea and dinner waiting.

Despite having driven 100's of miles home. LSP is now wrestling with the new gerbil cage.
Following the incident where Tiffany jumped out of the cage we now have a multi-roomed habitat. Officially its a space station. !!!!

Now I tried to assemble it myself while she was away but failed miserably. Far to technical for me.

I am just watching the soaps. Coronation street is quite sad, Lesley's story of early onset Altzheimer's is so very sad. It is such a cruel illness. I was in M&S the other day and got talking to the lady behind me at the till, her husband had Altzheimers and she was finding it very hard. we talked about carer's support and then before we knew it, it was time to go as I had got through the checkout.

I am so looking forward to this weekend. I am looking forward to getting the spare room finished. I cannot wait to post some pictures.

Talking of photo's. At the weekend when I said hello to my friends baby I took photo's. with the big camera, I enjoy taking photographs, of people, of things, of everything. well I posted them on facebook for her to see and she loved them. The best compliment for me was that a friend of hers thought she had hired a professional to come round and take photographs! I will be going back to take some with the baby's dad in as well.

so that's it the weekend is stretching out ahead of us....

In the morning, I will be doing the housework so that we have the rest of the weekend clear. LSP will have a lie in, there will be me, radio 4 and a feather duster...bliss.

gerbil madness

ok still no photo's. not just the backup driver so need to take a look at it.

yesterday we had a nice day, having brunch and touring the antiques shops and garden centre.
when we came home there was some planting up to do and also we had to clean out the gerbil

it is always a challenge as gerbils are both quick and messy.

now our Tiffany (yes the gerbil is called Tiffany) is not tame.

she is a wild beast, a small white beast, If you put anything near her she will bite it, this can be a nut, seed or finger, she does not mind. so in order to clean her out you have to wait until she is asleep. lift off the lid and as soon as she pops her head out pop her exersize ball and get the lid on.

simple.

no not simple, yesterday she developed the vertical leap.

I took the lid off.

She sprang out.

we then chased her around for 5 minutes. LSP quickly got the dogs out of the room, oh yes they would given 1/2 the chance.

eventually I managed to drop the ball on her, lsp held the ball in place while I quickly cleaned out the cage.

when it was time to put her back. I panicked.

Tiffany ended up in the cage with her ball. we then had 10 minutes of me trying to get the ball out.

so we have ordered a new cage, one with lots of rooms so we can separate them off. and avoid the jumping gerbils.

(oh yes my friend finally gave birth to her baby at 3.45 on Sunday morning. a 9lb3 oz baby boy)
(my other friend went into labour 2 weeks early and had an 8lb 4 oz baby boy this morning.)
(I have one more friend with a couple of weeks to go)

lots of baby's around.
hope you had a happy weekend,