Mr Quail Whoops No More

Mr Quail is finally an ex Quail. We found him as dead as a dodo last night. We will miss his unique whoops. Our Quail husbandry days are over and we are going to stick to budgies, although there was a dead budgie in the cage this morning. That and the missing goldfish from earlier in the week. It has not been a good week to be pet or soon to be ex pet in our house. We officially christened the pet burial area as a result. The house is more of a home now that we have buried some former pets. We have a connection with the earth now.

We have had a good run for a while and to have all this pet morbidity in one week is a little too much.

Ta Ta Mr Quail from Colin, Elizabeth, Hannah and Ryan.

As a little tribute, we have this funny video made as part of a scam bait.

Very Sad Story

From the Adelaide Sunday Mail (no link)

An Adelaide groom collapsed and died of a heart attack on the dance floor at his wedding reception in front of 700 guests and his wife of a few hours yesterday. Take it easy future grooms. He hadn't even got to the bedroom. I feel so sorry for his wife.

Why?

One of the great things about Australia, is that almost nobody has guns. On the other hand in America, everybody has guns. It used to freak me out. When I lived in Colorado, the late night news was always about somebody who had been blown away. Here is another, a succesful NFL player for the team I used to follow, the Denver Broncos. This guy died because of some stupid argument in a nightclub. How sad. What a waste.

Goodbye Yello Wiggle Hello Yellow Wiggle

Very sad day with the retirement of Gregg Page from the Wiggles. Somehow it will just not be the same. The rest of the group are going to keep on wiggling for the next generation of 2 and 3 year olds. Our kids loved the Wiggles, although they wouldn't admit it now. The first Wiggles Video was the first video that Hannah took an interest in and she watched it over and over.

The remaining members of the group, Jeff Fatt, Anthony Field and Murray Cook, said it was an emotional time. "It's very surreal that Greg's not going to be with us, very sad," said Field. "The thing about The Wiggles is we love doing it. I know Greg loved doing the shows, it's just that he can't physically do it anymore. "We love touring, meeting all the families, the children. "Myself, Murray and Jeff. We actually said to each other, 'do you want to keep going?' and we said 'yes, we'd love to keep going'."

Yes I am sure that they would, given the commercial empire that they have built. Wiggling for Dollars, not too bad. Queue replacement Wiggle and queue dollars. Are You Ready to Wiggle??