Thursday 26th June 2008
Frantically trying to find a suitable second hand rat cage in the paper. (£80 new! cant afford that!).
Found one in town about 10 miles away..but rats are in town 20 miles opposite direction. Looks like it will be a busy evening!
Left work at 5:30pm...had a wax booked at the salon for 6:30pm.
Went for wax (OW OW OW! Seriously. Just. OW!) K and I then zoomed up to get the rats, Sweeney and Templeton. We wait in Pets at Home while strange young man tells us all about his budding plumbing career and his new mobile phone. I wanted to tell him to be quiet and just hand over the rats, but I'm not quite that callous and waited patiently for him to be finished. Then had a mini coronary when I realised he had an identical twin and I prayed his twin didn't talk as much as he did!
Finally get the rats into the car, and we're off on a 30 mile mission to get their cage (£20, bargain!).
Eventually we get home with the rats, which are totally in love with already. Sweeney is just so cute, he likes to sit on my shoulder and snuffle at my ear.
Our friend H, who is living just up the road, came to visit the rats (and us). He was quite impressed and he loves them now too. They're such little charmers.
So. We have pets, our rooms are the way we want them..life is pretty perfect at the moment.