Explanation....

Back! (and so quickly? wow i hear you all say...) well i needed to get back or i would have another senior moment and forget what i was supposed to be doing :)....anyway where were we...oh yes exciting things were starting to happen. After the rabbit show and picking up our new car i think we thought we would have a quieter weekend next time around...Ha! and double Ha! nooo such luck; I'm not sure where abouts i put that we were expecting another grand daughter in September, well we were and Gemma (the mum) was due in Hospital for a C section on the 10th which gave all the family time for a big get together for Kim's mum and dads 50th wedding anniversary on the 8th.

 It was a lovely evening

 Myself and my son Michael (yes he actually came lol)

Kim even got on the dance floor for some wheelchair dancing....except because i forgot to put her stabilisers on and she was dancing with my daughters boy friend and got carried away....her wheelchair tipped over backwards.....she was fine and laughing but its put poor Alex from dancing at the moment lol. Our Grandaughter had decided she did not want to go to the party and poor Gemma went into labour the same day and Skye was born weighing 7lb.
Well that was certainly a hectic weekend 'so thats it then' i hear you say....lol nope :) since then we have had more guinea pigs turn up in the shed (not my idea...)

which meant Kim and her mum wanted to go onto the next stage....showing lol. They took a couple of gp's to kent and came 2nd in both of their classes which was good considering it was their 1st time..
The other peice of news concerned us as rabbit breeders...out of the blue i had an e-mail from a freelance writer wanting to write a piece on rare breed rabbits and how to find them, they used a lot of the wording from our old web site, i sent a few pictures of some of our breeds and hopefully we will see another write up about us and rare breed rabbits soon (will post a link as soon as the pet magazine is printed).
Lastly the explanation of the Ha! caught ya! lol
The last weekend of the month was my birthday....(thank you :) ...what? emm 43...47? okay...52 well anyway on the friday kim and myself were standing in the hall way when next doors house alarm went off about lunch time...well we often have alarms go off by accident and i always stick my head out the door and walk around next doors property just in case....and in this case it was a good idea as 2 men came running around from the side of the property...swore when they saw me then they ran off down the road. I called the Police straight away and luckily though stupidly the burglers had parked their car in the carpark of the nursery opposite who saw the men run in and jump into a car and speed off....not before the nursery people took the make and number plate of the car....the car was stopped 20 mins later and the occupents arrested unfortunetly one item had been stolen but not recovered :( we are hoping with my description and the make and number of the car, results in them going to court. They had broken in but whether it was the alarm or seeing the owners dog that made them panic we wont know at least nothing else was taken or the dog was not hurt.
The next day i did it again and was successfull in helping to corner and catch.....a chicken.....what? chickens can be quite dangerous at times? we had someone knock at the door earlier that day asking if we had lost any of our chickens (which we had not) but i went armed with a box and a fishing net and after battling brambles, nettles all in the dark i captured our new addition to our flock :) so an eventful weekend to finish the month of september off lol. Anyway b4 you go i found a couple of pictures of our new grandaughter Skye....here she is with Nanny Kim at the hospital :)

 and here she is with me at 3 weeks old :)

 

Next month have us going to the 2 day London Championships show so will take pictures etc. for that, Kims going to do a little mentoring with a very nice & polite young man who has just got into rabbits and wants to know about showing and stockmanship of mini lops.....I also have the bee's to sort out b4 winter sets in, so we will see how it all goes :) until then my friends l8rs

Ha! caught ya!

Wow I just realised how much the title of this particular blog actually means..., I meant it as 'I bet you all thought i was not going to write anything for at least another month or so' comment, which was the original idea but 2 pieces of news for september has it meaning something else as well :) confused? good, you will just have to wait until the rest of the news has been discussed lol.
So what have i to chat about this time :)......bloody loads and its all so different (grin) so like the stories lets begin at the start...of the month.
The first bit of news for September is that it was our wedding anniversary....which i forgot!!!! i never forget!!! so a lot of making up to do (we went out for a meal so dont worry and i got her a coffee machine lol) so just got out of that one but what else also helped was we decided to aquire a new car for Kim (ok so i get to drive it a lot as well!) the thoughts behind it was because of the past few winters we have had here.



I know it doesnt seem much snow compared to some areas around the country or world even



 but with the ice as well as the snow, and now the area we live is a little out the way; journeys to and

from the house are a little shall we say....exciting :) well for me it is as it reminds me of my youth going down the road sideways etc. but for Kim its not great, so we had discussed the possibility of trading in her Mazda 5 for an all wheel drive of some sort. In an ideal world (and lots of money) i would love the Range Rover, BMW X series or the Audi Q series....but trade in for a 10 plate Mazda dont give you much to play with. When buying things i am a stickler for checking stuff especially on the internet, which is how we found our new car, many of the car magazines gave this the top awards for a AWD cross over vehicle, which had us popping over to our local KIA dealer and choosing a new toy

(This is Kim posing by the one she wanted....she wouldn't do a swimsuit job across the bonnet for some reason???)

So here is Kims Essex girl car....which i really like....and considering the cost (you could buy 3 of these for a range rover) has so many extras....which Kim likes to point out....a lot....

Well as soon as we got the car it was straight out to purchase the next thing on the list of things that happened in September (note i said list....yep i did one this time lol) and that was off to pick up some thing for the rabbit shed.....'not more rabbits?' i hear you cry!! 'you said no more rabbits??' yes your correct...no more rabbits...which meant Kim could diverse slightly into...guinea pigs! yes you heard correct, we are now doing guinea pigs....well not me actually (phew) as there not my cup of tea, but Kim and her mum have joined voices...err forces i mean and are breeding and showing together as a daughter and mother team under the name Kaimyk Cavies Kim does Rex's and something else and her mum does other ones (i dont know!! i'm a bloke i switch off when its not something i'm into that much) you can see their stock on their face book page https://www.facebook.com/KaimykCavies or their web page https://sites.google.com/site/kaimykcavies/  i will leave you guys to look at so i dont need to put up any pictures....what?? :)

Ok next on the list was that Kim and myself went to our first rabbit show to show our own rabbits...in 6 years, it was the Kent County rabbit club which is about an hour away and we showed some of our under 5 month rabbits :) well it was a lovely reintroduction back into the 'Fancy' i stewarded on the fur and rex table whilst Kim stewarded (from her chair i might add) the lop table. Kim did really well coping with the show all day (which meant gearing up for london champs show would be ok and our rabbits didn't do to bad either with my glavcots getting best under five fur and 3rd in the challange (dont worry its rabbit show talk lol) then to top it all the lovely people of the rabbit club had us a cake made to say welcome back to the 'Fancy' after our 6 year break....well it caused a few tears lol but it definetly made us feel very welcome :).

The following weekend turned out to be a very hectic weekend but in the loveliest way possible :) it all started a few weeks before when....naaa i'll tell you a bit later...in the next blog....September part II or 'Ha your nicked!.....or 'gotcha!!'.....or 'my life wiv anuver bird'...or...well you get the gist  either way your gonna have to all wait :) l8rs!!