Trekking with tigers
Rachel is the mother of the two small people who feature prominently in this blog. The tiger safari remains on hold, and most of her trekking takes place within zones 1 and 2 of northwest London.
Sunday, May 12, 2013
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Monday, April 01, 2013
Dot enjoys a small snack
Dot is a calm hamster. She really likes sleeping in the daytime. She likes to play at night and she kind of makes a little rustle rustle tap. By Sofia.
Saturday, March 23, 2013
Introducing Dorothea (Dot)
So, we have news! After two weeks of extensive research and many hours on Amazon, we are the proud owners of one enormous cage (designed for ferrets), occupied by one very small hamster.
We went out in the snow this morning (I know - it's mad - nearly the end of March) to choose a Syrian hamster, clutching the Minimals small animal carrier that had arrived earlier in the week in one of the (many) boxes from Amazon.
We meant to choose a male hamster, as the hamster book says males are less bitey than females, but the guy in the shop suggested we look at this girl who was a little older than the others (13 weeks) and very friendly. So we all took it in turns to hold her and she seemed a bit more robust than the tiny jumpy males and not freaked out by Willy so we brought her home and now we have our first family pet.
She has her own covered toilet, which she seems to be using - apparently they are very clean animals who like to choose a specific place as a toilet. In any case hamster poo is just small black pellets and not offensive at all.
We quickly discovered she can climb right to the top of the cage so we may have to string up some hammocks to avoid her injuring herself if she falls. (Clearly I have been spending too much time on hamster forums!)
Tomorrow we will be getting her out to handle her and hopefully not losing her around the house...
Thursday, February 21, 2013
Northern Lights odyssey
So we're back from our adventure in Finnish Lapland and we can all say we've seen the Northern Lights. I know this isn't the steadiest photo you've ever seen but somehow it's the most atmospheric and it was taken just on the path outside our cabin.
We left home at 7 am on Saturday and spent most of the day getting there - flying first to Helsinki then on to Ivalo and then getting a minibus to Kakslauttanen. In my mind, I'd thought that it was a romantic exaggeration to say that the resort was just a collection of log cabins in the forest and that really they'd all be clustered together around the restaurant complex with covered walkways but actually they are dotted about in the trees. Here's a shot of ours, complete with sledding inhabitants.
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Friday, January 18, 2013
From bad to worse...
This doesn't really do justice to just how heavy the snow is at the moment, and I have to go and pick up William soon (which I will be doing by train).
If anyone is wondering why I'm not blogging:
We have no bathroom.
Or living room.
Or dining room.
The shutters were finally coming today but the van went into a railing and decided to go home to Brighton.
I have had eight cold sores. Four remaining.
And a bacterial infection requiring antibiotics.
We have to move out again next week so the hallway ceiling can come down.
So I am not really in the mood for posting pictures of sunny New Zealand.
















