Been having trouble remembering how to access this blogg over the Christmas/ December period so I just relised that no announcement of Bert, Davy and Tiffany named as usual on a musical theme after singer/songwriters Bert Jansch and his hero Davy Graham, and Tiffany is after the singer famed for 80's songs "Think We're alone now" and Beatle cover "He was just standing there" and has some excellent recent albums. These three budgies bought us up to 6 now with further additions of Sammie, Mikey and Debbie (see previous log) brings us up to 9 budgies, 2 Linolated parakeets )Apple & Pear), 1x Canary (Amos) 1 x Star finch (Eric) and 8x zebra finches ( George,Ringo, Stuart, Pete, Klaus, Billy, Damon, Jarvis, ) brings us to 21 birds!

As you can see inspired by Myles -who came and took some delightful shots- I managed a good session with Apple & Pear.

Christmas was quiet with just Paula, Me & the birds....we enjoyed HM Queen 's speach then watched "A shark's Tale" on a Dvd, with a snippet of the year end TOTPs show.
Apart from that we played our cd collection and talked for hours.

Builders still are outside -they start up their noisy engines at 7.50 every week day -just 10 feet from our bedroom-no chance of comfortable lie-ins-eh! Oh the price of tarmac and lack of wildlife and trees!
Into the New Year....2007, nearly February....(to be continued...)

New Year 2007- Welcome to Sammie, Mikey and Debbie-named after Samantha Murphy & Mike Schmid both singer/songwriters stateside ( www.samanthamurphy.com & www.mikeschmid.com ) , both of whom kindly gave permission. Thank you. And "Debbie" is unofficially named after singer/artist Deborah Gibson, known initially for her 80's singles and since several fantastic albms and stageshow productions in London and Broadway.
See pictures :

Had a sprinckling of snow here this week -a few hours -not much to build a snowman with-eh!

Been watching football on tv and playing cds

....and playing with Serif Photoplus 11 software to manipulate our images.

www.flickr.com/photos/colinbp still is fun for us ATM.