So my alarm went off at 6am and the next thing I knew it was 6:35 and I found my alarm clock in bed with me. I got up and looked out of the window to find that the snowfall hadn’t been as bad as we had been lead to expect. So I had a shower, shaved and went downstairs to make tea. It was only when I put the radio on that I realised that we were surrounded by the usual snowfall chaos.
The radio was telling us that the Police were advising people not to travel and that there were a load of schools closed including the two secondary schools that Bex and Rhianna go to. When I took Sarah’s tea up she had just had a text from her (and Ben’s school) to say that it too was closed. I decided that as I had the mac at home I might as well err on the side of caution and work from home.
I sat down to start work and after a while there was a loud bang from behind me and I turned just in time to see the budgie cage falling from the top of the piano with a black cat attached to it. Crash it hit the floor, cat scarpered and three budgies flew off in different directions landing on the tree and crashing into windows. The cage lay in pieces on the floor in a pile of seed and budgie turds.
We chased the birds around trying to catch them in dressing gowns, pyjama tops and tea towels. Eventually we had two back under the cage bit that was sitting on the kitchen table minus the bottom. The third budgie was in a tea towel but as we tried to put it in the cage it escaped and landed in the sink. I managed to catch it but as I did she sank her beak into my hand and only let go once she was in the cage.
Sarah then set about cleaning up the mess while I disposed of the broken base of the cage and nursed my poorly hand! All three birds seemed to be quite nervous but I gave them some food and they settled down again. I was just about to go back to work when I heard Sarah shouting at the cat again. As it was so cold outside the little bugger had decided to use the bath as a litter tray and had left something very smelly and unpleasant in there which I was apparently in the frame to clear up……
….then we had breakfast!
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