Poor Annabel. Poor Laurence.

The shock of being attacked by Sugar was just too much and Annabel, Laurences rabbit, died a little while ago.

What do you say to a heartbroken little boy when he has just watched his pet rabbit die?

Charlie-Barley soaks up the sun...

Charlie sunbathing at the front of the house this afternoon - looks like she tired herself out by watering the plants with my watering can.....

Sugar with Abigail

Abigail is enjoying spending a lot of time with Sugar - constantly taking her for little walks around our land...

Sam in the jungle.....

Sam stomping through the jungle of weeds that is our front flower bed :)

Sugar.....

A pic of Sugar from this afternoon - just before she got hold of Laurences rabbit, Annabel.......Annabel screamed out - we managed to get Sugar off her and she seems ok now just a little shocked.....Laurence as very upset though - I did tell him that it was his fault for leaving her out......and of course now the children can't understand why Sugar tried to eat Annabel because I had told them she is a vegetarian!!!! lol!

Scrapbooking.....

I did these two layuts last night and today.......still finishing up my Florida album....

Told Charlie a joke and she fell over laughing!

Q: A blonde is walking down the street with a pig under her arm. She passes a person who asks "Where did you get that?"

A: The pig says, "I won her in a raffle!"

How messy are you?

Are you messy? Do you like to be surrounded by clutter? Or are you a neat freak? How messy is too messy?

I was watching Gill Deacon this morning and the whole show was about mess and clutter. David Freedman - the author of The Perfect Mess was a guest and was basically saying that its healthy to have a little mess - it equates to less guilt if you relax about the home and you have more time to enjoy life.

He also said that even messy people normally ahve a personal alarm system that goes off if the mess gets to be too much and then they sort it out - so those who pile clothes on a chair will normally let the pile get to a certain size and then sort it all out and pack it away properly....

He said that most successful people/ creative people are messy and have messy desks. He said that Germans are the most neat nation and that Hitler was extremely obsessed with neatness....

It was an interesting show.

Did you know that Einstein, Arnie and Bill Gates are all messy people? And Einstein has a famous quote:

"If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, then what is an empty desk a sign of?'

Career choices....

Why on earth would someone choose to become a Colonic Hydrotherapist????? Who would choose to suck poo out of people all day every day?

The Lunar Eclipse

I waved Lloyd off this morning just after 6am and as he was leaving I noticed the moon was partially eclipsed. I had forgotten that it was happening today and we slept through almost all of it. It was still neat to see. I took these pictures and then thought I'd take another look in a few minutes - well five minutes later the sun was up so high that the moon had vanished!

The last total Lunar eclipse here was in 2004.

It made me think of the solar eclipse a few years ago - I remember my friend Faith had come to visit for the day and we took the children up to the playground near my home in Stockport. We were so far north in the UK that we didn't get a total eclipse - but it did become like twilight in the middle of the day. Very cool!