It's my little pink guys birthday!
Thor turned three today and it was of course the event of the year at our house. We had snuggles, cheeps and enough seeded cake (which was worse than gluten free) to last a lifetime. I also happened to be sporting some serious pink tresses thanks to a very colourful shoot with the Maurice Meade team at the weekend - just in time for his big day!
It was all just so flocking fabulous, I couldn't resist a quick little post...
It’s bittersweet that I should be writing this post about Kenickie. I’ve had my blog for almost three years now and this is the first time I've chosen to write about him. Exclusively I mean - the little rascal was forever popping up in my blogs, along with his bros Thor and Finn… But I never dedicated a blog just to him.
Only now that I no longer have Kenickie in my life do I write about how much the little pikachu featherball meant to my life...
Okay, so I've been a little slack on the blogging front lately... Life has, as it so often does, taken over - and it's been hard to catch my breath, let alone sit down and write about what has been happening.
...and so much has been happening! So I thought I'd pop it all into one, beautifully rambling, utterly unplanned blog post to bring you all up to speed! Enjoy x
“If you love something set it free. If it comes back it’s yours. If not, it was never meant to be.”
We’re all familiar with this sentiment... But what if you accidentally set it free, then embark on a mass-Facebook campaign to find it again? It still totally counts as being ‘meant to be’, right?
This week I spent 24hrs without this little guy after he flew away. I'm relieved to say he's now home safe and sound after his sporadic adventure, but I genuinely don't think this would have been possible without the incredible kindness, support and compassion I experienced from Perth people on Facebook. I honestly never thought I'd see him again.
Prayers do get answered - I'll be paying this incredible miracle forward for sure...
On an average Thursday, back in July, it decided to pour down as I left the office. The heavens literally opened. Suddenly, the SUV in front of me came to an abrupt stop. There was a tiny green bundle in the middle of the road, just metres away from us, absolutely soaked as the rain pelted down from above. It was a baby Rainbow Lorikeet.
I jumped out of the car, grabbed a towel from the SUV in front and picked the freezing little bird up. Bundling her into the car with me, I spoke to the stunned little bird softly all the way home so she could become familiar and relaxed with the sound of my voice. Upon arriving home, I held her in front of a little portable heater to get her warm with one hand, as I frantically Googled what the hell to feed her with the other.
This was going to be one very colourful adventure...
I was so stoked to receive this Penny Skateboard delivery last month! As a kid, I would skateboard everywhere on my 31” wooden board, with black grip deck, neon pink wheels and silver skull artwork - the only kid on the block riding a board as we went on adventures in and around the Yorkshire countryside. I absolutely adored that skateboard, it was so hard leaving it all loved, scratched up and battered behind in an English charity shop when I was packing up my life to move to Aussie.
Fast-forward twenty-something years later and I received this little beauty through the mail. Shamelessly singing the lyrics to Avril Levigne’s 'Sk8er Boi' at the top of my lungs when it plays on the radio in my car (my preferred four wheel mode of transport these days) is probably the closest I’ve come to skateboarding in the past few decades.
So I guess you’re wondering why I’m even blogging about this, huh? Well, read on, people…
I couldn't resist posting about this little dude's first birthday... C'mon now, you all know what a crazy bird lady I am!
If you didn't already know, Thor literally flew into my life at the end of last year - on Halloween to be exact. He was just over three months old when we got him, and me being me (birthdays are just my favourite!), I wanted to firm up a date for his special day.
So when I did the math, I arrived at around July 24 - which really made me smile as that was the same date as my beloved grannies birthday...