the kids have named the baby budgie....

[gussiegrips]

For reasons which have passed me by, we seem to be having to hand rear a baby budgie.

It is very small and wasn't responding well yesterday. It appears to have grey feathers, like it's dad.

I warned the kids that it was likely to die, and they were not, under any circumstances to give it a name not after the rabbit debacle.

Naturally, I overheard "well, he's grey. We should name him after something to do with grey".

uh oh

"Graeme"

Graeme the budgie. So named, because he's grey. Hope the fecker lives now. Cheered me up no end.

Graeme.

Thank you so much for this thread. DP has complained that she can't tell if I am reading this or Terry Pratchett.

With both I snort and giggle and insist on reading things aloud, out of context and with tears of laughter too.

After all the recent nonsense, such a treat. Real humour, doesn't need to be explained or excused.

I hope all the Gussie family and menagerie are well and that 2014 is a great year for all of you, esp Graeme of course.

How did I miss this first time round???

Is Graeme going to stud gussie? Will the world have the joy of tiny Graemelets?

Ha ha, he's a stupid bird, but, I'm delighted that you've all got to share in his cheery effect.

Am hugely amused at the notion of him emerging from the bathroom with a Beiber flick and a cloud of Brut over his head, like Linus.

Graeme was nonplussed by the Festivities, mainly because he was confined to barracks a lot. Too many wee people with a whole lot of love to give him - the tortoise was nearly squished flat by enthusiastic cuddles!

I am toying with the idea of breeding the budgies again - there's a bunch of folk at the school gate who'd like a pet bird for their kids, so, we'd be able to offload them. Wouldn't use Graeme though, I'm awfully fond of him, but, I doubt that he's a gene pool that should be continued. Mind, even the vet said he was a runt...

He's like the token sad bachelor on MatchDotCom. Destined to be forever unpartnered because of his unkempt appearance, scraggy physique, baldy bits and floppy, erm, foot.

This is my first hearings of Graeme and the cannibal rabbits and have to say your story telling is brilliant!

Can you write a book? Fifty shades of Graeme I think was a suggested title! What a handsome wee chap he is as well!

Best entertainment all day and so glad he's doing well.

Thank you gussie, also very much enjoyed all that, with timely reminders to do my physio exercises thrown in
Am seeing a specialist women's health physio at the moment. Apparently I have good technique, but not really a skill you can brag about down the pub as such!
Am so glad I am having this now after 3 DC cause having a convo with someone whose hand is up your bits while they assess damage has to be the most surreal thing I have ever done...

The rabbit story at the beginning has made me very happy, as it appears my daughter is not alone in her strangeness.

My mums dog died recently. Upon telling my brothers daughter, Brothers daughter promptly burst into tears and started wailing 'But i don't want percy to be dead' (The dogs name was not percy) and went hysterical as you expect a 3 year old to.

My daughter on the other hand, Didn't show so much as a flicker of sadness. My mum told her that she had gone, and my daughter asked what my mum had done with her now that she is dead. My mum said she is buried in the garden. My daughters response;
"Well, Can we dig it up then, I'd like to see what it looks like" (IT, Not she, IT).

Kids are weird, Dizzy, that's for sure.

Our wee Graeme's ticking along. He's an adult now, and I'm glad to say that his floppy foot has regained strength. He still flies squint, but, is doing absolutely fine.

I've decided that he was worth the effort.

So, once the better weather comes in I'm hoping he'll make it out to the aviary. We'll miss him inside, but, he'll be a lot happier with some budgie pals.

Meanwhile:
skateboarding: disaster
connect 4: will lift the pieces
Flying to finger: only if you bribe him with millet
being kind to the tortoise: nope, he's for nibbling.

We're supposed to be getting a praying mantis. DD is bug mad, and has worked it all out. Including how to "cultivate" fruit flies. Breedign flies in my house? This isn't how I saw my family going.

I don't know how this keeps happening to me.

Oh what a wonderful thread! And little Graeme's all grown up!

I am also doing my pfe's regularly, and I've just instructed my 11yo dd on doing hers, much to her mortification.

Aw

Lovely thread.

I’d ask how Graeme is these days...but I have no idea how long budgies live and I want to avoid a foot-in-mouth situation

He could still be nibbling the OPs feet and playing connect 4 Binky, my parents rescue budgies lived with them for t leaver 8 or 9 years and they weren't freshly hatched when they arrived. Not sure about a budgie discribed by the vet as a runt though... Hopefully they last longer :-)