Silence Please

DD1 just managed a whole minute of silence for rememberence sunday.

DD2 was asleep, so was quiet too.

Hamster Dance

DD1s hamster - Nibbles - escaped. I went in to her room to feed him this morning, and obv after she'd come and woken us up at 7.30, he'd made a bid for freedom. The cage door had been opened (It's a wire job which has a clip. The hamster had leant against it and opened it up.) and there was no sign of him.

After much frantic searching of her room, we discovered him hiding out under the wardrobe. DD1 has a pine slated wardrobe with canvas cover, so thankfully he was easier to spot. After 45mins of pleading, he eventually moved out from under the wardrobe and was caught and placed back in his cage. We then put cable ties on the offending door and will be using the other access point from now on.

Friday night goes with a bang.

Well, TH and DD1 have just been to local rotary clubs firework display, at middle school in town. The bangs were a bit loud but the colours were very pretty, apparently. DD1s favourite were the green fireworks. (See piccies to choose your favourite!)

Yet more pickling.

Have been busy again, making a fig, apple and sultana chutney. With apples gathered off a tree on common land, and figs from our tree (!) The sultanas had to come from the local health food shop, but a 66% free chutney isn't bad scoring.