A Bug's Life

It's been a couple of weeks since I posted, there's plenty going on and I'm off out to the cinema shortly so might catch up on more things this evening.

Last Saturday was a bit odd; ( minus hamster )

So that took up my morning instead of getting to the con early. I had cleaned out the temporary tank to nurse Humphrey in, then of course I had to thoroughly clean his proper tank then the temporary tank again, then it was Matilda's turn for cleaning (large hamster who looks like a Friesian cow but also does not like to be handled). Gave all Humphrey's dishes and toys a good soak in Milton and put them away.

Instead of getting to the con in the late morning/lunchtime, it was burying time. I obviously wasn't quite ready yet; I just needed to pull up a bit of bindweed from hamster cemetery corner and dig the hole. but spent an hour doing a thorough weeding of the whole back third of the garden, digging down and pulling up bindweed roots (even though this is a futile effort against the incursion), untwining the new tendrils from the other plants.

After shower and some lunch and a couple of errands in town I got to the convention at 3, chatted with some people and got to a couple of talks.

But it was a bit strange.

I'm not planning to get a second hamster, instead I will put my cardboard robots in the tank, so they can be seen but can't get out to go rampaging. I don't know what the cat will make of that.

Maybe Matilda will like getting slightly more attention.