Today has been a much longed for day in our household, the day our bunny family was completed.
Poor Benjy bunny has been without a mate for some time, but today was the day we went out and chose a little play mate.
It wasn't as straight forward as we hoped.
We wanted a girl bunny as we understand male/female pairing works best, but our local store only had one female and she was hiding away out of sight...if I am honest we really wanted a choice, so decided to drive to a nearby Pets At Home.
Sadly they had no bunnies whatsoever!
So we drove another few miles to the next store...they had a pen full of boys...like our local store...but no females, so on we went to a rival pet store nearby...only one large black bunny.
So, we went back to our local store and decided to have a closer look and the shy bunny...well when the assistant removed the top of her hideaway and we saw her sweet little face...then when he lifted her up and we saw her giant back feet, way too big for her body, well it was love at first sight....although the assistant wasn't 100% sure she was female, so whilst he took her off for a second opinion, we willed her to be a little girl bunny...and thankfully she was.
So...welcome Flora to the family.
We have allowed her some time to explore the garden without Benjy, given her a couple of hours in the hutch again without Benjy and given her lots of cuddles in the house.
Tonight they are in the hutch but one up one down with access to each area blocked off.
Tomorrow evening we will try a gentle introduction and build up the time they spend alone together.
Needless to say Teen Two is highly delighted.
The assistant at the store told us there is a supply problem at the moment, so the females being born are not being released for sale, only the males so they can build up stock again....whoever would have thought there would be a problem breeding rabbits!
Today held another special event, Grandma was 83.
We always take her out for lunch/afternoon tea on her birthday and today she chose my favourite tea pavilion out in the country.
With both the Teens being off today they were able to join us, they chose a luxury hot chocolate...
...for me it was of course a scone....these really are scrummy homemade scones.
Outside the tea rooms is the most adorable little lawn mower!
It looks like it would work too so I assume it really was a child's lawnmower from years ago.
We took a walk round the walled gardens and also the new Farm Shop which has just opened.
It was full of unusual (and expensive) goodies, ideal for presents but not general shopping.
We got well and truly stuck in the works traffic coming home, but when reflecting on some news I had heard just an hour earlier, it was impossible to be frustrated with the sitting in an endless queue.
Next weekend is a year since my friend died of breast cancer.
Her daughter was in her first week of uni, and my heart broke for the family.
Yesterday my friends husband was admitted to our local mental hospital after being found having made an attempt to end his life, had a friend not realised things were not right and broken in, it would have been too late.
I can only imagine how his poor daughter must be feeling.
Life is so sad at times isn't it.
I am so sorry to hear about your friend's husband - thank goodness his friend found him in time! Things like that do put everything in perspective don't they?
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