Rabbits!!

I have had my hand torn open by a little rabbit who wasn't very pleased at the idea of going back to bed again. I am so annoyed with my little flock of rabbits tonight, I have had bunnies for the past ten years and don't consider myself to be an amature but I ended up being scratched by two different rabbits. Benson is a little tiny rabbit without the strength to break skin so when he scratches it is not too bad (though he does have a wonderful little bubbly personality) but Salt is a little madam with attitude. She has just been given a new big hutch but never the less decided that she didn't want to go to bed so she went crazy and scratched my hand badly. In essence I am not pleased!!!

My inside bunny has a poorly eye and I am trying to give him drops 3 times a day. This is made easier by the fact that he is happy to sit still, however it is made harder by the fact that he has really long eyelashes and the drops are sticky. I usually manage to get some in his eye though and he just has to accept the fact that the fluff around his eye permanently looks wet. I shudder to think how difficult it would be to administer if it was Salt instead!! I would permanently be covered in scratches!

I am now going to spend the evening sulking with doughnuts and popcorn

Eating wallpaper

I am getting my first puppy in a month and a half and I cannot wait!! I am utterly daunted at the same time by being responsible for her development and happiness (to be completely anthropomorphic). I have seen my freinds buy impulse puppies over the last few months, two of which have ended with the dog being rehomed. They seemed so unphased by such a big life upheaval but the idea sort of terrifies me (somehow in a good way).

I just think that if I can't train this dog correctly then I must be in the wrong career... mind you it might be a bit late for a change after a degree and a masters in animal behaviour lol.

The boyfriend and I have had a bit of a dissagrement about the placing of the puppy crate, the problem is that we have a house bunny and two hamsteres who will need some form of segregation at night. We are now thinking that the dining room is a good place for her to live. I think it might need some form of decoration though, we tend to avoid the room since the baby rabbits wintered there last year. I say babies but in the space of one weeks holiday I came back to find rampant teenagers who were chewing the wall paper off the walls. Needless to say that it looks a complete state now!! They even managed to get ontop of their cage and chew the wall half way up... they even nibbled the concrete in places! It didn't take long for the books at the bottom of the bookcase to migrate upwards (luckily they didn't munch on any books I liked too much!).

Lagging behind

Well today has not been the best of days... all the ducklings seem to have vannished from the pond. I am sort of hoping they were bullied out by that nasty male, but I can't help but think they met a worse fate!

Ever feel like you are lagging behind in life? I constantly judge myself against others and come up wanting. I know perfectly well that I have achieved a degree, my PGCE, am about to start a masters course, have a wonderful partner and a house but still I am dissatisfied. I do think that some of this might be down to facebook (the route of all evils!!). I tend to look at what other people have, children, high flying jobs and lovely new kitchens and feel that I should be there... I guess I am hankering after the impossible... the perfect life!!

I keep telling myself to stop judging myself against others as it is never going to make me happy, however doing it is much harder!!

Seaside adventures

Yesterday we took the advantage of the blistering heat and went to the seaside. Of course when we got to Saltburn it turned out that the sun was hidden behind a teeny tiny cloud and there was no breeze to blow it away. Saltburn turns out to have one of those beaches which permanently has wet sand which quickly soaks through your beach towel. By the time I had been sat down five minutes my leggings were wet and I was quickly realising that wet sand is hard sand and thus uncomfortable to sit on.

In the space of time we were sat down I managed to be hit by a football (men who seem to think that they are a. fantastic looking even though they wobble as they trundle after the ball and b. professional footballers) and have someone kick sand in my can of Pepsi... I thought that it would be the children who would be the problem on the beach but it seems not!! I even heard some woman telling her child off for trying to build a sandcastle as it was time to go and get chips.

We stood in line for an hour to get chips and then climbed 200 stairs back up the cliff to the car where there were free benches, by the time I had hauled myself up there I didn't feel like eating lol. After that we decided to try another seaside and headed towards Robin Hoods Bay.

Later I did think about the fact that we picked two seaside towns which included large hills which you had to navigate back to the car. I am shamed to comment that I was passed on the way back up from Robin Hoods beach by an elderly couple!! Hands up I am way out of shape!! When staggering back to the car I did realise that at least it hadn't mattered that I only made it to the gym once last week as I had just done the equivalent of two workouts.

When I woke up this morning it was drizzling and the back of my calves hate me.