The weekly blog stays!

The weekly blog stays! I was really pleased to receive so many replies to my question last week. Every reply said they enjoyed reading my blog, some said they liked to check what new stock I have and everyone said they would prefer the blog to remain weekly. Some replies are shown on the site and here are just a few of the others that I received by email:
1. Love the weekly blog, please carry on.
2. Oh and my opinion...don't cut down on the blog!
3. I just read your blog and I loved it and I think if you have got the time keep doing them weekly as I know I'd like to hear what you are up to.

I noticed that when I ok a comment online, the person's name appears. I hope nobody objects, if you do please let me know and I will try and remove your name but it may result in me having to remove the comment too (you all know by now how great I am with technology!). Last week I sent an email to my future daughter in-law (my son is marrying next month). I thought it was really witty but I also thought that everyone had seen the news story about the mother-in-law from hell sending an email to her future daughter in-law pointing out how discourteous she was. My email basically told her that she had better behave with decorum on her hen weekend as I will be there. I also thanked her for her hospitality at Christmas last year and the one before, I apologised that I was a bit late and hadn't sent a hand written card (if you haven't seen the news story you won't have a clue what I'm on about either). She sent back a polite but bemused reply and I immediately picked up the phone to explain that I hadn't gone mad. It does go to show that you do have to be careful what you put in an email. I certainly have no wish to go viral! I do sometimes worry that my blog is too personal, rambling and even self indulgent but it seems that people are ok with that. I'm not really the sort of person to write an intellectual paper and if anyone doesn't like my blog they certainly don't need to read it.

Back to the bugs - I give up, I can't cut back on stock because I really can't resist the amazing amount of livestock that is around at the moment. I am being offered some lovely creatures and seem to have new ones coming in almost every day. Yesterday I got a large number of spiderlings. Some species I haven't had before and some I have really wanted to get in again, species like the Blue Fang, Cobalt Blue, Singapore Blue and various Indian Ornamentals. Next week I have some beetles and Pancake slugs arriving. I really do like giant slugs, I know that not everyone would agree but I think they are cute. There is no surprise that I will also have some more spiders next week. I am extremely pleased that most of the adult spiders I purchased last month have sold. I'm a little surprised to still have the Mexican Beauty (all 3) and the Mexican Malinche, both specimens are beautiful and I was told sought after? I think I will need to get hubby to put a new photo on the website, perhaps the current one doesn't do them justice. I haven't got any further with the spider gallery this week and hubby will be away on our son's stag do this weekend. His list of jobs is growing as he was also away last weekend but that was work.

There seem to be lots of wildlife programs on at the moment. I was watching David Attenborough last night, I loved the Velvet worm that he was handling. Last week I was watching 'Walking The Amazon', the guy was mad (but very likable), it took more than two years. I bet he saw some fantastic bugs but we only glimpsed a few in the program, it was mostly about him trying to survive. I would like to have done perhaps a week with him but I don't think we'd get very far as I'd have to stop and poke around continually. One of my customers is a scientist working on the internal workings of tarantulas. Evidently his work has been in several publications recently but I'm sorry to say I hadn't seen it so I'm glad he sent me a link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/13989529. I don't think the link will work when uploaded to my site, you may need to cut and paste it but it is fascinating.

I read in the paper that Sainsbury's have already started bringing out Christmas goods and I have received a couple of Autumn bulb catalogue. No - please let us have summer first, I hate the cold weather and so do all my little friends.

Back out to the bug house now, I housed and fed the spiders yesterday but the boxes are all over both the tables. I need to make some space, the bug house seems to be shrinking on me. It's a good job I am slim or I wouldn't fit between the cages! I treated myself to a new extension lead today. I am fed up with hoovering half the bug house and then having to move everything to walk around the other way because the hoover lead won't stretch far enough. I have to plug it into a specific socket because most of the plugs are on a thermostat so when it is warm the thermostat is off and obviously the hoover then doesn't work! I do try to keep everything reasonably tidy, I hate working in a mess.

I am still thinking about what to put in a newsletter but it has been a very busy week and it looks like being a busy weekend too.