Oh Woe is Me

See that!!!  See what happens when you don't look where you put your feet?  Ripped part of my toenail off... and it hurt!!!!  You know the saying that 'a little blood goes a long way'?  Well it certainly does when you have wings, on the floor, the walls, the ceiling, furniture, curtains, carpet, Stuart and Janie!!!  You name it, I splattered it good and proper.

Despite Stuart and Janie's best efforts, my foot kept bleeding so it was off to the vet, she was very nice, said that I should not worry, and that I was a big bird and I hadn't lost to much blood.  She fixed my foot by rubbing a tiny stick on it, weird huh?  Not that I forgave her for the big bird comment, I am not big, I am just well muscled, all that flying I do.

Anyway, it's all forgotten now, well by me anyway.  I am busy getting on with my very first moult, which takes me a lot of time and effort, especially making sure my feathers fall all over the place.  I love seeing Janie vacuum, in fact I love it so much I went for a ride while she cleaned and pooped on it.  Took Stuart and Janie ages to clean it off.  Such fun.

Nibbles, Darwin xxx

First Post of the New Year

So here we are again, been a while since my last blog, but been very busy.  As you can see I have some new toys to demolish, I had great fun unwrapping my Christmas presents, to be honest they were more fun than the actual things inside, but you have to keep up appearances don't you or they might stop buying me stuff.

I spent some time with Stuart's Mum and Dad over Christmas, my large holiday cage had been set up for me, it was wonderful.  I even gave Janie and Stuart a couple of presents myself, two new phrases that I had been practising especially for them...

'Look at you'  and 'What ya' doing?'

They seem pretty happy, doesn't take much, good job I didn't recite the book, 'War and Peace' to them or I am not sure what might have happened.  I shall keep quiet about that until a later date.

Until next time,

Nibbles Darwin xx

Merry Chistmas From Darwin

I just wanted to wish everyone a very happy Christmas, and have lots and lots of holiday fun and games.  This will be my first Christmas and I have been helping Janie and Stuart wrap some presents.  It was great fun, especially them chasing me around the room trying to get the sticky tape back I had stolen.

I think there is even a couple of presents under the tree for me, ohhhhhhhhhhhhh... I can't wait.

Nibbles Darwin xx

The weather outside is frightful...

The other day I looked out of the window and freaked out, it was a mess, white stuff everywhere, surely this is not normal.  Honestly it took Janie ages to calm me down, and then, the sky began to fall in, huge white flakes where falling down to join the mess already on the ground.  It was disgusting, and looked sooooooooo cold.

I was really happy to be inside, all warm and safe.  Honestly it's a complete jungle out there at the moment.

Janie said that we could go outside to build something called a 'snowman', it seems you bundle all the white stuff up and make a replica of a person.  Honestly she is so strange at times, she put a carrot on the table and said we could use it as a nose.  I looked at the carrot, and thought that it really didn't look like a nose, even the overly big nose that Janie has. 

So when Janie went to put on her coat, I did the only thing that I could to show Janie that this was not a nose but a carrot.

I ate it.....

Nibbles Darwin xx

Scrapbooking for Beginners

Well look at this, Janie has decided to make a scrapbook of me, isn't she sweet...  I can make a scrapbook as well, or at least I can take a book and turn it into scrap pretty darn quickly tee hee...

This is the first page she made, with one of the first photographs she took of me.  Don't I look so cute, as if butter wouldn't melt in my mouth as Janie often says of me, which is strange as we all know that butter would melt in your mouth, so why she says it I don't know???  But then I can't figure out half of what Janie is saying anyway, it's all gobledegook to me.

It's just a short and tweet post today, but will be back again soon...

Nibbles Darwin  xx

The Birdinator

Hello again, todays lesson is in the Art of Destruction.  Some may say that it takes time, patience and a lot of know how to destroy anything, I say, it doesn't. Destroying anything is actually quite easy, be it chairs, wall paper, curtains, tables, cooker hobs, plastic containers or curtain poles, as seen in the picture above.

I love to swoop down on an unsuspecting Janie, if she is sitting and reading one of her crafty magazines, oh what fun to grab a page and rips bits of it out.  As I have said previously about food what's mine is mine and what's yours is mine to, this actually applies to everything in the house, it all belongs to me.  I can eat, chew or poo on everything, and I do it all with great abandon.

Sometimes, when I poo on Stuart he gets a little tetchy, and tells me off and puts me back in my cage.  I just ignore this bad behaviour and eat a little food and wait until he lets me out again.  I always forgive him, I haven't owned him that long and I am still training him.

Nibbles Darwin.. xx

Grey's Don't Go Cheap

Hello friends, yes it's me again, can you believe it tomorrow I am six months old!!!  Don't I look good for my age?  As you can see I am enjoying life, my flying is really coming on now, and just to annoy Stuart and Janie I always try to land on their heads.  They do so hate me to do that, but I find it so funny, especially when I hang on to the hair really tightly when they try to get me down.  Such a laugh!!!

As you can see Janie has given me my own Piggy Bank to save up my pocket money.  She says that I cost to much and that I will have to start supporting myself.  I tried to explain that, that was what my wings were for, but she was having none of it.

It seems we are very expensive to maintain, besides the cost of buying me, and buying my cage.  There are food costs, vet costs, toy costs and cleaning costs.  Having a Grey or any bird in your home is something you should not undertake lightly it seems.  We are not cheap, but we are lovable (mostly), but anyone considering buying one of my feathered chums, should really think hard before going ahead.  As a wise man once said, 'Polly wants a cracker'.  Not sure what that has to do with things, but it is a very wise saying you must agree.

Anyway, I really must get on with trying to work out how this Piggy Bank thing works, I am sure there is a nut in there if only I could work out how to get to it. Polly might want a cracker, but Darwin's prefer nuts!!!

Nibbles Darwin  xxx