Theo was really really sad when I got home on Tuesday. Crying, sad, sobbing. Sarah said he was about a 9/10 on the sadness scale. Poor little chopchop machine. He had a decent night sleep though, but we did give him Pamol just before he went to sleep and then I got up at 2:30am when he started to cry out and gave him a bit more. That seemed to keep him happy and he was OK for most of Thursday, but he's was quite hard to get to sleep again last night.
Our new lawn furniture arrived on Wednesday, Sarah and I spent the night putting it together. Though actually only the table needed to be assembled, the chairs are single moulded and very comfortable. It's a nice dark grey colour too, hopefully the bird shit won't show up on there as clearly.
Sarah bought a new bike seat for the bikes the other day, the hope was that it could fit on my bike while the old "baby" seat could stay on hers. But my bike is some sort of weird uber bike that's too cool for any normal attachments to fit it. So the new seat wouldn't fit on it, nor would the old "baby" seat either, I think we'd tried to get it to fit on there initially. We'll have to try and find something that fits on my super cool, super annoying bike. The initial test ride with Beth on the back and Sarah riding didn't go so well, I knew when they weren't back after 5 minutes of the "very quick test ride" that something had gone wrong. I threw Theo in the car and we drove down to find out the seat had sit the back wheel. I hadn't tightened it up quite enough, so it'd wobbled. No one got hurt though thankfully. We bought it back and gave it a good tighten this time and it seems much better, tonight Beth and I rode up to the postbox and posted some letters before going on a little bit of a ride around. The only problem with it now is that when we got over a large bump the seat (with a heavy Bongles on the back) bends down far enough to just touch the rear tire, causing a scraping/honk sound. Which can't be good for the tire, but otherwise it's good fun.
The garden is going great guns! Strawberries are popping up everywhere and they're huge, the birds still have a good go at the easy-to-peak ones through the netting, but otherwise they're unscathed. The courgette plant is going bonkers, spitting out a fresh one every day. We're at the usual "wtf are we going to do with all these damn courgettes?" stage now. The cucumber plant has suddenly turned into an Octopus and is growing tenticles daily that clamber all over the show, but it hasn't produced any major fruits yet. Lots of little tiny inch long cucumbers, but they're not really what I'm hoping to achieve here.
Work's nuts. I've done some Christmas shopping but not enough. Sent some Christmas cards today.
This morning Choppers got into the toilet again and ate some toilet duck fresh disc. Good work Theo. I think he's fine, the box says to seek medical assistance and to "take the box to show the Dr!" but then there's nothing on the box to indicate what the ingredients are, so they can't be anything more major than "soapy stuff". He seems fine. And he smells toilety fresh.
Adrian brought our Christmas Tree over to our house on Sunday. When we picked it Sarah said "Are you sure it's not too big?". Of course not, I said. Turns out it was too big. I mean it was fine, but the Christmas Tree stand thing we've got couldn't handle it. I had to do a bit of chainsawing to get it down to a reasonable size. It looks amazing now, Sarah's done a great job of decorating it. Heaps of lights. I like lights. I'm surprised that Theo hasn't tried to eat the tree, or get in the tree. Or maybe he has and I just haven't heard about it.
Time to get on the bike and scooter home!
Tim
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