Not quite myself today

On January 14, 2019January 13, 2019 By geordieroscoeIn Health5 Comments

Morning all. Roscoe here.

I’m not feeling quite right today. I wasn’t feeling quite right yesterday either, and Mam noticed and gave me some tubejuice.

She asked me what was wrong, because I was right quiet like, ‘not like meself at all’ as she said. Of course I couldn’t answer her, and anyway I didn’t right know what was wrong except I felt all funny inside. Stuffed up, you might say.

She said she thought I might have a tummy upset. Sounds like it might be.

She gave me lots of mint with my breakfast, which she said would help. Well, I reckon mint will help any time. It’s a right pick-me-up, is mint. So I ate all that, and then I had a snooze, and Mam went out all day, and I felt a bit better by the time she came back.

But she says if I didn’t seem right today she’d take me to the vets.

So I’ll see how I feel after another snooze, and let you know if she decides to take me to see Dr Sally. Although Dr Sally may not be there because she’s having a baby. I don’t know who I’ll see then.

More later.

Bye for now

Roscoe xxx

PS. I’m being interviewed by Joshua too. On 22nd February. We’ll remind you nearer the time.

I’m being interviewed by Joshua!

On January 7, 2019January 7, 2019 By bertie bootsIn guest interviews2 Comments

Hello everyone. Happy New Year. Bertie here.

We had a nice new year. I’m not sure what new year is, but it was nice. Mummy stayed up late one night last week because she said there might be fireworks, but there were only a few and they weren’t too noisy.

Something exciting happened this week.

Mummy received an email asking if Joshua could interview me for his blog post!

We’re always very happy to read Joshua’s comments on our posts. I’m sorry I’m not very good at answering them. Mummy has to do complicated things so I can do that, so I just click the ‘like’ button. It says liked by Mummy, but it’s really me.

Anyway, Joshua sent all his questions across and I answered them, and Mummy helped me find the best photos for it. I wanted one of me with Percy. Mummy said “wouldn’t you like one that shows you off in all your glory?” And I said, “no, the one of me and Percy on the chair would be good.”

I miss Percy. But I’m not missing him as bad as I used to. Mummy says that’s normal, and she feels the same way.

Soo, you’re going to have to wait to read my interview, because it’s going to be out on Friday 22nd March. That’s a long time away yet. I’ll remind you nearer the time. I’ll try and get a picture of Joshua to show you some time. He’s not a guinea pig. Mummy says he’s a daygoo, but apparently that’s spelt degu. Well, I suppose guinea isn’t spelt ginny, so I’ll let him off.

Have I shown you the picture of me with cousin Dani? I look extremely handsome in this one. Dani looks extremely pretty too. We make a great couple, don’t you think? Even if Dani does have ratties, not guineas.

The Last Day of the Year

On December 31, 2018December 29, 2018 By geordieroscoeIn Happenings, Health3 Comments

Way-aye, Roscoe here.

It’s the last day of the year, Mam reckons. She also says she doesn’t really know what day it is, although she did manage to turn up on the right day for her golf and to collect Uncle James, who’s staying at the moment. I reckon I saw Uncle James last year, but I don’t remember him too well. He seems like a nice chap, anyway.

Last week, the day after Bertie posted, it was Christmas day. We had presents that Mam helped us unwrap while we had our Christmas morning cuddles. Neville and I have a wonderful box with hay inside it and grass on the outside. It makes a lovely noise when we chew it, too. Bertie and Biggles are jealous, even though they each got a couple of tasty sticks that hang on the side of the cage.

What we didn’t reckon on was Mam deciding we’d got invisible mites making us scratch too much. Well, something was kind of itchy. Even Bertie started scratching , so Mam stuck some wet stuff behind our ears the day after Christmas. It was okay at first, and the next day, but as time went on I didn’t feel like eating much, and neither did Nev or Bertie. Mammy asked us if we were poorly, we were so quiet.

But next day we felt fine again, and she weighed us all and said we were still too heavy and hadn’t lost any weight last week. It was all those yummy carrots we had on our holiday, Mammy.

Between you and me, I reckon Mam’s been eating too many carrots this Christmas too. She says we all have to do more exercise and eat less starting today and onwards into the new year. I’ll be right behind you, Mam.

Happy new year!

love

Roscoe

xxxxx

We had a lovely holiday – and now it’s Christmas!

On December 24, 2018December 23, 2018 By bertie bootsIn Happenings3 Comments

Hello everybody! Bertie here!

We got back from our holiday the other day, after a long drive in our boxes, but not as long as it had on the way to get to our holiday. Mummy didn’t go round in circles, for one thing. Well, not as many, anyway.

I sort of enjoyed the holiday because I had a nice peaceful time and I could look out of the window. It rained every other day. Mummy went out every day, but sometimes she came in when it was still light. Sometimes she went out to have a walk, and then she came back and went out in the evening. So, yes, Auntie Dawn, I think she saw some feathery things but she was all excited about something on the grass near the sheep on the first day that she said were red wings.

We didn’t go out on the grass because it was too wet, but we did have a nice run on the floor of the cottage. The floor was very nice because it had underfloor heating, but it was nice, not too hot.

We also had visitors. Auntie Cathy and Uncle Phill came one day and then they went out, but they still had time to cuddle us. The next day Auntie Teresa and Sam and Dani came. If Mummy is Cathy and Teresa’s auntie, does that make us their cousins? Dani is the person who does Mummy’s cover illustrations. I liked her a lot.

I think you saw our setup from Roscoe’s message last week, so I won’t put a lot more photos up of that.

We’re getting ready for Christmas now. Mummy says that’s tomorrow. We had our photos taken under the Christmas tree, which has some presents under it. There weren’t any for us, though. Mummy says ours will arrive tonight, along, possibly, with some more for her from Santa. I hope she doesn’t get any more guinea pigs, though. We haven’t enough room for them if we go on holiday.

I hope you have a lovely Christmas with lots of presents. I’m hoping for something edible. I think we all are. Mummy says she’s putting us all on a diet, though. Including herself. Well, if you must go out for meals with your friends and family every night for a week, Mummy….

Merry Christmas, everybody! (waves)

love

Bertie xxxx

Bertie

Biggles

Roscoe

Neville

Greetings from Hampshire

On December 17, 2018December 17, 2018 By geordieroscoeIn Happenings3 Comments

Way-aye, Roscoe here again, calling from the wilds of Hampshire. That’s a place in England that’s miles away from home in Norfolk.

It was a very long journey to get here, and it felt like Mummy was driving in circles at one point, but she straightened up, and we arrived at the cottage in the afternoon when it was still light.

Bertie is in the blue cage on the shelf above us. Biggles is in the box the cage came in, and he’s beside us. We’re in a run in a nice alcove, with our travel box to walk into if we want to be extra cosy. And we’ve all got our tunnels and beds.

There’s also a run connected to ours, so everyone has some floor time. Mummy keeps going out but when she gets back she lets me and Nev out into the run some more.

The food is good, the room is nice, and Mummy seems like she’s enjoying herself.

It’s too cold and wet to go outside and try the grass but there are sheep and birds on it. Mummy says if we come back in spring or summer we can try it out then.

Sounds good to me. Here are some photos.

Mummy says funny things sometimes

On December 10, 2018December 9, 2018 By bertie bootsIn Happenings2 Comments

Hello! Bertie here again.

Mummy says funny things sometimes. I don’t really understand what she means. Yesterday she told me at cuddle time we were going to be going on a long journey. Longer even than going to the vet. We’d be in our boxes for a long time, although she hoped we’d be able to come out for a break somewhere along the road.

What’s a road?

Anyway, she said not to worry about it, she explain more when the time came. But we’re going to be in the holiday cages for a week. I’ll be in one, Roscoe and Neville in another, and Biggles in his box opening out into a run. That means Biggles is going in the box which used to be Colman and Kevin’s, the one with the sort of panel in the front.

So it sounds like , whatever it is, Mummy’s got it all planned. And she’s coming with us, so we’ll be fine. And we’re coming back again. So we can sleep easy.

But we might not blog next Monday, it depends on Mummy’s ipad.

So. There you have it. Does it make sense to you? It all sounds very funny to me.

We’ll report back when we can.