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.

DISTILLED? That's only for gin
Do they really need distilled water? How the hell have they apparently escaped extinction for millions of years if they're that fussy?

We did have a lovely woodlouse family for a while, after DD found a 'pregnant' one.

Best Thread i've ever come across on MN.

Go Graeme!

Oh Graeme best wishes from the other side of the world.

Awesome thread! This has totally cheered me up. Go Graeme

Graeme the stupid budgie will be sexually mature about Hogmanay (developmental delay aside)

I have decided to enter him into a stud programme. You can all have a Spawn Of Graeme to bring joy into your lives.

Well, joy and green, splodgy poos in unexpected places. And, a vague headache from his demanding screeches.

Quail's bum in situ. She can go back out tomorrow.

And, yes, Happy - I may well use this thread to motivate the whole of MN to #doyerblardyexercises. Wish I'd taken a photo of the quail prolapse. That'd be fairly encouraging .

Sucks up to gussie.....

I'm doing mine like the clappers since my hysterectomy. 3 lots twice a day - the ones you recommend. I'm proud to say I'm now 'watertight' for the first time in 20 years.

So

Delighted to hear it, Dance. Really, delighted - it's not a big commitment to exercise, but, it can be totally lifechanging.

Things here are ok. Quail back outside, bum where it should be. Hurrah.

Graeme's making more noises (other than the annoying squawk) and his feathers have come on a treat. He's putting weight on the sore leg and starting to flap his wee wings.

He's totally tame, really, remarkable. I can see the appeal of a bonded bird now.

However, I have a potential problem...middleyGrip is asthmatic. The kind that makes consultants weep. That's why the birds went outside in the first place. So, Graeme was expected to die only going to be indoors on a short-term basis.

He's not weaning, which is fair enough given the runt-issue, and the sore leg thingie and the fact that he doesn't have other birds to learn from.

But, MiddleyGrip's been poorly last night - and, usually, that means an admission's not far off.

I hadn't thought about what would happen to Graeme if Middley's on the ward. Stupid bird needs feeding 3 or 4 times a day and likes to have his cheek tickled for an hour at a time who's going to want to do that?

Clearly, MNHQ should step in and adopt Graeme as a MN mascot.

It's the decent thing to do.

Gussie, if I'm anywhere near you, I'll take him under my wing
as I'm a sahm at the moment. I won't chill him in the fridge, promise.

Oh, just seen you're in Edinburgh, well I'm in London. Shame.

Oh, gussie, dontcha hate this time of year with asthmatic offspring - huge sympathies. I hope you and him avoid admission this time.

I would offer to adopt foster Graeme if you deliver him to me - it took me decking 2 hours into E'burgh today and almost as long back home (30mi). Note to self: take the train, you stupid woman!!

Or you could post him to Cinnamon in a cardboard box with holes in...?

Cinnamon, that's really kind of you.

Emergency cover sorted with the local city farm who do pet boarding. And, with any luck, WheezyBreeks will behave himself. He's more trouble than the fecking birds.

And, they are a LOT of trouble.

TWO HOURS? Did you try to take a tram?

V funny... [offended]

I think my day was less bad than the poor saps involved in the RTA which caused all the delays this morning

Thread derail alert: could you possibly direct me to were your 'recommended PFE' are to be found, please? A friend of a friend is interested...

send him on the stenaline to Belfast- il have him:)

That's kids for you. My 4 yo is still humming to herself next door. Why don't my children need sleep? Other reception children are knackered when they are picked up. Mine just thinks the second half of the day has started.
Sorry to hear about the wheezy one, had one of those, too. He's grown out of it thankfully.
Glad Graeme is sorted. Would have picked him up from the train in Kings X you know. That box looks comfy.

Ha ha, we could have "Adoptee Idol"?

You all give Graeme your best auditions and we get MN to vote. The winner gets a vaguely annoying, but utterly endearing bird. (Graeme, not me)

"Graeme, not me"

Pelvic floor exercises - I'm hoping this isn't advertising (I'm not selling anything!) www.gussetgrippers.weebly.com is my decidedly amateurish website. In dire need of updating, not even anything aobut the Fringe on it.

Page on there. And, if you follow me on twitter I'll remind you to #doyerblardyexercises. I tweet, you twitch your twinkle, see?

I get a bit ranty about pelvic floors. About a third of women aged 35-55 wet themselves, but about 80% of it is completely curable by doing pfexs. Should be taught in sex ed, tempt the young ones with the carrot of better orgasms, that'd get them doing them when they brush their teeth.

Then half the women over 55's fannies wouldn't fall out.

Fanjo evangelist. That's me.

Pacific - sorry you were delayed by an RTA. Horrible. I'm glad you're ok too.

I'm forever pelvic flooring

pelvic flooring, in the aaairrrr....

I thought only birds tweeted? [does not 'get' twitter]

Thank you so much, gussie - I was genuinely v sorry I could not see you at the Fringe. The Family seemed to think it was appropriate for me to go on holiday with them

I've just emailed this thread to DH, who has the same realistic attitude to pets. That was before I read to the bit where it got to fannies falling out.

I hope he's okay with the references to pfe.

Mind you, he copes with me.

Really feel sorry for your budgie especially EXPECTING it to die!!!. Could you not just look after him. He is not a toy or something to have to please the kids .
Wish I had never rad this.

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ignore, gussie. Probably a humourless shit stirring GF