Sunday-all day today!! Not done much-or yesterday.
My Aunt - Jessie Brisley died on 25th August 2006.
I watched the rain and the sun and the clouds..nuffin doin'
Will try to have a better week...hopefully . (God willing!)

Picture by my Dad; Kath (my mum)+ Jessie - 2 down in 2 months...this family can't get much smaller!!!!

Paula & I visited Bird World this morning had a great time then watch Chelsea vs Manchester City-a dissappointing but predictable 3-0 defeat of City. Seems they need more players-I think.
Watched Liverpool vs Sheffield Utd for the other Citypool game-1-1 draw. Saw just the Reading goals vs Middlesborough-oh and the Arsenal goal.

On Saturday 12th August the Basingstoke Caged Birds Society along with Berks & Bucks Budgerigar Society met for their Annual Bar-B-Que at Nigel & Sheila Darley's house.
Paula accompanied me there for a good veggie meal and a fine welcome by others.
We saw Nigel & Sheilas' caged birds and the photos are on the www.flickr.com/photos/colinbp2 site.

Paula and my pet parakeets had their first chance to join the lounge flying group today 17/08/2006. Not out as long as Amos by far but they seemed tired and content when they went home to their first floor cage. My camera keeps resetting the flash -on setting, it did it several times this last couple of weeks-perhaps it's me! As a rule I don't use flash photography for animals or babies.

Paula and I managed a visit to Marwell Zoological park near Winchester, Hampshire on 16/8/2006. We saw some of the many attractions we'd not had time for on previous visits.
The weather held and we very much enjoyed ourselves. Thanks to the Marwell Zoo team.

Our canary Amos decided to go for a fly today- not really been out much since we had him, he's never shown us he wanted to but 5 minutes before I was due to leave for "Snaps!" he said "yes!" , ie vooom he's was out while I was feeding him-I'd tried to alter his swing which got snagged when I'd last cleaned him out.

Well I didn't think he'd last to dark, scrambling (me) under the budgies cage to pick him up at 8.30pm. (11.5 hours) .

We had an enjoyable day -got my Fotoshoot anyway! But we did not do a lot exept drink cold drinks (non alchoholic).

We hope to repeat the episode pretty soon -if he's willing.

A beautiful bird; Amos.

Paula & I went to Bournemouth today. The seaside was at it's height of fun with thousands of holidaymakers. The weather was pretty hot though clouded as we left at 3pm -ish.
We mainly wanted to visit the Aquarium -Oceanarium.
As a relaxing, beautiful creatured place it's superb; the two enormous seaturtles, friendly stingrays, sharks, catfish- all absoilutely wonderful, even a soft shell toitoise -I think similar to Underwaterworld's "Godfrey", this one was buried in the sand-I thought it was an eel then a whole body of a shell rose out and he/she swam about. wow! A moment and a half!!!
Feeding time was very good and we saw two ; sharks, & turtles.
You get an all day ticket so we had a break in between lunch(vege burger & chips Plus tea & coffee- Rob's along towards Poole (only a hundred yards or so).v good.

A good time was had with lots of photos.

Sparkey & Emerald came out for a fly today, Jimi & Donna chose to look on, this caused great excitement with the other birds. They were flying about the living room, for about an hour.

The photo of Sparkey on the finches cage is getting to be a regular shooting spot- by me of the budgies whilst out. (there's a pencil drawing version and a different photo(s) of Emerald in the same spot. The pictures are of a mature Donovan (autographed & sent to me by Donovan, kindly) Durham Cathedral & John Lennon captured in West Germany in a Hamburg doorway (aka Rock'n Roll cover picture).

Steve Marley, an up and coming musician (with band) -New single "Believe"-actually he said was an E.P...more value for money (Buy,Buy,Buy!) recently played Guildfest (appartently Donovan played too) -came as an Ntl engineer and fixed the cable box attatched to my tv. He fixed my Dad's recentlly too. Well done Steve-not often you have a celeb fix your tv at home(s).

2 other of my sites;

http://paulapuddephatt.tripod.com/donovan/ -my Donovan fan site

( Donovan's Official site for up to date news, sales and reviews, clips etc is www.donovan.ie)

www.colinpuddephatt.bravehost.com - my Home page (text only)

Shaw Trust Summer Outing tommorow -hopefully have some pictures for you all!!