Yesterday we get a hamster to move into Fudge’s home. She looks almost the same as poor old Fudge but is a bit wilder. She bit her way out of the box on the way home and has been squeaking a lot and nipping.
She’s calmed down quite a lot after being handled for the last hour though, so we have high hopes for another friendly creature 😉
This morning we lost Fudge, the tamest hamster I’ve ever known. He was fine last night but was not looking well this morning and seemed to wait for Harry to get up so he could see him one more time before he passed on. He’ll be missed 🙁
Nibbles, the guinea pig, has been unwell for a while now. It started with her losing hair and getting lumps under her skin. She also had an almost constantly wet bottom, but was lively enough otherwise and as I suspected Cushing’s Disease, for which there’s no cure, I decided not to take her to the vet so she could have more time with us.
This last week or so she’s been losing a lot of weight and her teeth have been growing out of control, so on Friday, with a heavy heart, I took her to the vet and he put her to rest. She’s at peace now.
I bought this from the compensation following my cycling accident:
It’s an HTC Advantage X7510, Pocket PC / Phone / GPS / Camera.
It arrived, following many delays, last Saturday and it’s an absolutely amazing piece of kit. Pricey but I did say I was going to get the best available and that I did.
Seen here in a docking cradle and yes, that is a mouse pointer. It’ll also read flash disks and output to a VGA / SVGA or Composite port.
It’s quite large for a phone, but I have another for voice and I did get it for data usage only. It does fit in my work shirt pocket, complete with keyboard (magnetic clip-on) so it’s just not too big as to be an inconvenience to carry. It also came with quite a few accessories.
A very worthwhile purchase, all-in-all 🙂
It seems this is coming to Cardiff. I spotted this near my home yesterday:
I have mixed feelings about this. It’s a nice idea but I have some concerns about privacy. OK, it only takes what you can see walking down the street anyway, but this archives it. Not sure how I feel yet.
Shopping in Tesco this morning I happened across this massive saving. I often wonder how we’d survive without such discounts 😉
Askimet has been getting a bit pants lately, and over the last day or so is almost completely failing to trap any trackback spam, so I’ve switched to Spam Karma 2.
I’ve actually disabled trackbacks on all new posts anyway, but left comments as active. You do need to be registered and logged in to comment.
I’ve put this post in both Positives and Negatives. Positives for SK2 and Negatives for Askimet and those bastard spammers.
Courtney was feeling left out, so she bought Chocolate on Saturday. That makes a grand total of 4 hamsters here now!
In short, I don’t do social networking. I have a website, this blog, msn, ICQ, IRC and more e-mail addresses available than you can shake a shitty stick at so I’m just not interested. I neither have the time nor inclination to sift through endless invitations to become friends to people I’ve never even heard of so I will not sign up to any of them, even if a family member invites me (they should know better anyway 😉 ).
Myspace, Facebook and now Bebo have been added to my mail server’s blacklist for not respecting my “do not contact me again” requests. Some of do actually have a life outside the realms of the Internet. Strange I know, but there you have it 🙂
This is Toffee…
This is Cream.
Both actually joined our family on 27th December, but I’ve only just got time enough to photograph and post this entry.
Toffee is quite mad, and Cream goes flat when petted but is really docile and friendly. Neither bite, which means we’ve still been lucky on that score to date 🙂
