I WAS NINE YESTERDAY...

I am back.. did YOU miss ME and HER?

Yesterday was MY Hatch Day.. WE spent the day mostly at home.. as SHE had lots to do and WE have guests staying for two days, Barbara and Sara from Germany.. lots of chatting and laughing were done and lots of work.. SHE is very busy doing stuff and a lot of stuff had to be done.

Where have I been, I hear YOU ask.. humble apologies dear Readers.. there has been so much going on that SHE has been getting up, getting ME up, WE broke that norty fast and the day then just whizzed by.. whizzzzz. So come usual Blog writing time.. SHE and I were fast asleep.

And today.. is the first day of MY tenth year.. As yesterday was MY Hatch Day, YOU humans call it Birthday, I had a special supper of zucchini, humous, melon seeds (yum, MY new lurve) and roast chicken.. slurp-the-durp.. I do love human food.

WE have had some incredibly hot weather, which was lovely during the day.. WE love long sunny days but it has been a 'trifle' hot at night, phew, talk about humid.

Today it is raining.. does SHE mind? Not in the slightest as out at the allotment, aka garden, there are many bush, plant and tree roots slurping up the rain saying "thank you", because SHE does not water anything except for things in pots.

When something is planted SHE soaks the earth and it gets another bucket as well but that is it.. it makes for very sweet fruit!

This does not apply to plants that grow at home! Oh no.. SHE gives these plants water every day but they are all in pots, the front of OUR house is covered by tomatoes.. the smallest of which is over SIX foot high and covered in tommies!

And so with rain happening this means WE will not be going out to the garden today, just as well as there is much to do at home and so Dear Readers.. I say.

"Happy Days everyone".

GeeGee Parrot.
July 30th, 2013.

AND SO IT CAME TO PASS ON THE SEVENTH DAY OF THE SEVENTH MONTH AFTER SEVENTY SEVEN YEARS..

SHE is so hyper-sensitive to HER 'sevens' that the only birthday parties SHE has given have had to be in a year with as many sevens as possible!

7.7.77 was a good one and 07.07.07 was also a good 'knees-up'.. cockney slang for a party.. 

So how or why it slipped past HER that it was 77 years this year since Fred Perry won Wimbledon, the last British player to win the mens' title.. heaven only knows! 

And so it came to pass.. that after seventy seven years.. on the seventh day of the seventh month.. a Brit won the mens' title.. without HER having a bet on it.. What is OUR world coming to? 

Well.. the very nice thing is that SHE has lots of "thank you's" to say to all of the Dear Readers who have emailed "happy birthday to HER" today.

And what a lovely day it was too.. WE eat strange things sometimes to break that norty fast and today it was peppers with buttered eggs.. sounds weird.. trust ME, it was truly delicious! SHE slurped coffee, I slurped cold LappySang.. 

HER jaunt to the garden was not until early afternoon, I was originally going too but as the temperature rose towards 30 degrees, I kid YOU not, SHE decided I was better off at home in the cool.. far too hot on buses for small fat grey folk.

SHE had a lovely time and returned with a brown face.. some folk go pink.. SHE goes brown. 

It annoys folk intensely but HER skin has always been like this, mind YOU, SHE does brew a pretty powerful witches potion to use when old Son is shining his torch on HER because SHE makes all HER own skin care products. 

SHE truly is HER fathers' daughter.. there was not 
much Hugo didn't know about the chemistry of skin care.. 

So SHE is home and I want a kiss-and-a-cuddle and to eat human food and to hear all about HER day.. so pip pip Dear Readers.. pip pip.

I'll squeak in the week.. 

GeeGee Parrot.
July 7th, 2013.

BIG DAY TODAY.. SEVENTH OF THE SEVENTH.. IT IS HER BIRTHDAY!

Yes folks.. aka Dear Readers.. it is HER birthday! 

First SHE has to collect OUR Goaty supplies from Goaty Mum aka Debbie, then WE are heading for the hills.. to the garden.. to lounge like lizards in the sun or sit in OUR paddling pool if it gets too hot! 

WE will join garden friends for a lovely day. Eat scrummydumptious food and drink delicious drinks, made with home grown Mint, oh, heavens to Betsy, I lurve mint in MY water. 

I apologise for not posting Posts on MY blog for over a week.. much to do, SHE has been coming home late, SHE has a couple of elderly friends who are very 'poorly' so SHE has been making sure that they eat, are clean and spending time with them. 

And there is much to do at the allotment / garden. But interestingly, the home growing tomatoes are way ahead of those norty allotment tomatoes! 

WE lurve Cherry Tommies for they are just like sweeties, especially the Yellow Tumbling Toms! There are two of these plants in cone shaped baskets hanging from a window frame, little fruits are bursting out from the flowers and soon it will be 'pick-your-own-day'!

Oh yippee.. yellow toms and eggs to break that norty fast. And in the deep pots are their more serious cousins, the 'Beafy' Boys, who are four foot high and climbing! 

Next week is Currant picking week, the Black and White varieties are ripe, protected from Mister Pigeon, aka flying thief, by their drawstring fleece bags, which have been a great success! The red ones need a little longer, they are red but WE like them really ripe! 

But the stars in the fruit department this year are going to be Gooseberry and Blackberry! Old Gooseberry take a couple of years to get going and this is the first year that the crop is a bumper one. 

And wow.. there is such a lot of fruit coming through on Blackberry, the canes are covered in flower and luckily as they are a very early fruiting variety, WE have no trouble with old fat pigeon as he is too busy eating something else! 

But now.. it is 'get-up' time.. shake MY tail time, there are several trays of delicious things in the sitting room to which SHE has to attend.. much to do.. so WE bid YOU adieu. 

And as it is the last day of Wimbledon today.. WE say.. "Let the best man win". 

But before WE go.. I want YOU to sing.. yes, come long now.. it doesn't matter if YOU can't sing as no-one will hear YOU.  

"Happy Birthday to YOU, happy birthday to YOU, happy birthday dear HER, happy birthday to YOU". 

Don't forget mine on July 29th.. that's it, I am out of here and into YumYum HQ..

GeeGee Parrot.
July 7th, 2013.. aka HER birthday!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MARLOWE.

SHE has two twins.. one is HER cousin Graham and the other is Marlowe.. no relation, a grand daughter of a much beloved friend whom YOU all know as 'Granny'.

Marlowe's mother is called Sienna and her father is called Tom.. and 'Granny', who has been called this lonng before she married and had her babies which made her a grandmother, is called Jo..

And so WE extend OUR Birthday wishes to this little un-related twin.. the first of many..

For Marlowe is ONE year old today..

Happy Days.. kiddo.. happy days.

GeeGee Parrot.
July 7th, 2013.