Hectic half term holidays!
Hectic half term holidays! It's been a strange week, work is really busy at this time but with my nephew's three children here it has been hard to fit everything in. We went up to London on Tuesday, visiting the Natural History museum and Harrods (where I explained to the kids that I got my very first stick insects). I have so many things to fit in today that I think something will have to give. I cannot believe that I slept in this morning! I woke at 6am fully intending to get up and write the blog but I fell back to sleep and was woken at almost 8am by my hubby, oh panic. Perhaps I should do the blog in 'bullet points' (short sentences, like a CV, my daughter goes on about them as a way of writing reports. She had a short stint as a recruitment consultant).
Bugs are all going well. I have sold large numbers of cockroaches this week, they needed cutting down before the 'big move' into my new bug room. Hubby has had a few days off but he too has been roped in with the kids. He took the time off to decorate the room but hasn't got as far as he had hoped. We just had a call from our son and he does need help with his house move tomorrow. We hoped to get out of it, I have, as I'm at the X-Factor Wembley tour, enjoying a competition win. The bug room is really taking shape though, it won't be too long before we can start moving things in. It will have to be a slow process as I want to get it right. The room is so much smaller than the current bug house, my only real concern is that it truly won't all fit. I think my pets will certainly need to be elsewhere in the house. Hubby is not too keen on my snakes but I love them so they may well end up in the living room. My two large tanks of Crested geckoes are a problem. The geckoes are lovely but one tank is enough and sadly the two males will not get on (females are fine together). I have just about given up trying to re-home them, I have wasted lots of time with no realistic offers of a good home. I don't want to just palm them off, I want a 'good' home or I will keep them all.
I seem to have a crazy number of tarantulas but I am not intending to cut them down. Tarantulas are clearly what people want these days. They are long lived, don't take up much room, easy to keep and cheap to feed and in my opinion some are very cute indeed (I'm thinking furry Avicularia's here, rather than 'snarling' baboon spiders). Whatever the tarantula species they are all different and interesting. Most people who keep them seem to have a collection rather than one or two. I have a few egg sacs at the moment. Earlier this week I was reading about taking the egg sacs away to incubate them but I can't bear to. Generally tarantulas are great mums and will hold onto their egg sac for dear life if someone tries to take it from them. I much prefer to leave them alone, they know when the egg sac needs turning or moving from one area of the tank to a drier/damper area. I discovered only yesterday that one of my Vietnam Earth Tigers has an egg sac. She is wild caught, I've had her for ages, she was obviously mated before she came to me. The box that she is currently in is too small so I will re-house her this Sunday (I intend to catch up with everything on Sunday!).
Seriously run out of time now, kids are coming in 15 minutes, picking mother in-law up for weekly shop in 30 minutes. I give up, I promise to do better next week !!!
Last thing, I have some brilliant customers, loved this YouTube link this week: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zakEWak-iu8&list=UUhzJMJqR3q8AoLgyD1aZdEQ&index=1