Puddings & Toyboys

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Remembering Thomas on his adoption day

1 Comment Posted by onesweetiepea on 27 April 2019

Thomas came into our home on this day, 6 years ago. He was an amazing blue & photos of him do not do him justice. He was well loved by all. Sadly, he did not stay with us long, but his impact was enormous. Though Dalai, Perry & Lennie never met him, they live with his legacy by bathing in the Thomas Bath.

Here is a video of Thomas in the aforementioned bath. He was joined by Phineas, who he personally coached in the art of bathing. If you are wondering why there is hardly any water in the bath…. I can assure you it was full when they had started!

Always in our thoughts.

♥♥♥

Happy 3rd Adoption-day, Dalai!!!

2 Comments Posted by onesweetiepea on 14 March 2019

Dalai came into our home on the 14th March 2016. He was, we believe, around 5 months old at the time, putting his birthday (or hatchday) at sometime in October. As we do not know the exact date that he came into this world, we celebrate the date he came into our lives.

I always have to double-check the year he arrived as I feel like he has been here much longer!

Here he is having a bath:

Happy adoption-day, Dalai darling.

We love you lots!

♥♥♥

Dalai

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Social media, feasting and a prize!

2 Comments Posted by onesweetiepea on 14 December 2018

I joined Instagram recently (@onesweetiepea) & took part in the Instagram challenge #12daysoffolksy.

Folksy is the home of British Craft, where you will find thousands of beautifully designed creations – all made by clever hands crafting away across the UK. They set up an Instagram challenge to help promote Folksy, promote its sellers (& others!) & to have a bit of fun!

I am a new Folksy seller & you can imagine that some of my items are inspired by birds or bird-related (link to my shop is at the bottom of this page). Naturally, I used some of the chosen themes to ‘promote’ my birds! Day 10 was ‘Feast’, so I posted a picture of Dalai, Perry & Lennie feasting on red millet:

Dalai, Lennie & Blurry Perry

I was delighted to find that they won a prize for the best animal-themed post for Day 10! They had more red millet to celebrate!

The eagle-eyed amongst you will have recognised the above photo from a previous post in 2017. (Click here to see that post). The slight sadness in this is that the red millet was in celebration of Bezukhov’s 7th birthday & you can see him in the photos in the original post. So, I feel he deserves a mention too, given that had he not had a 7th birthday, they would not have had that millet & therefore the photos would not have been taken & the prize not won! So we give big thanks to our dearest, departed friend, Bezukhov.

You can also see in the photo that Dalai had his troublesome feather!

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Happy 2nd Adoption-day, Perry & Lennie!

4 Comments Posted by onesweetiepea on 14 November 2018

It was two years ago on this day that I brought home these two beautiful, blue birds.

I would like to say they are maturing beautifully, but they are still rascally rascals! Lennie is still pursuing Dalai & still gets worried that he is missing something! Perry is still pretty laid back which is great because if he was not, life as Lennie’s cage-mate would be challenging!