Photo Every Day #239

Today has been a nice day off. I have literally done nothing! I watched some tv and a couple of films, played with my puppy and kitties and then ate ice cream whilst watching Catfish: The TV Show. Perfect!

Ratty Hammock:


Song Of The Day: The Distillers - The Hunger (Live at Reading Festival)
Reason: Just watch!


Highlight Of The Day: Watching Melancholia.

Inspiration Of The Day: Phantom cameras! Such beautiful images!!!

Photo Every Day #237

The ratties love their new hammocks and I love the colour! I like them to have comfortable beds that keep them warm. They look so cute all snuggled together in them!

Ratty Hammock:

Song Of The Day: Uberbyte - The Black Classroom

Reason: One of their best songs in my opinion!

Highlight Of The Day: Relaxing with my puppy.

Inspiration Of The Day: Cyber Candy. Best candy shop ever!

Photo Every Day #124

This evening we gave the rats a bath. They don't have space in their cage to have a bowl deep enough for them to properly wash in so it's nice to help them feel fresh. They were really good and didn't really mind being splashed with warm water. They groomed themselves afterwards and looked nice and clean!

Song Of The Day: Swedish House Mafia - Antidote
Reason: The perfect song for the sun!

Highlight Of The Day: Proper quality time with my boys (the rats).

Inspiration Of The Day: The Apprentice. Inspiring us all not to be prats! Can't wait for the new series!!

Photo Every Day #48

Just a short one today as my computer is being super slow!

Blue Boy:


Song Of The Day: Five - Let's Dance
Reason: God I miss 5ive. Best. Boyband. Ever.

Highlight Of The Day: Looking for 90s style clothes. So funny how things can end up back in fashion.

Inspiration Of The Day: Vogue magazine. 

Photo Every Day #35

This evening we have had a nice half hour or so playing with the boys. We also did the last of their spot on treatments for Quigley's mites so hopefully that will well and truly be the end. Quigley seems to be back to his normal self, nice and groomed with no little cuts/sores, so I'm glad he's much happier now. I'm also determined to find them a new even bigger cage, I've seen some huge ones that can fit multiple platforms in so that would be ideal, the only bad side is that they all tend to have wire floors which I do not like at all. The right cage is out there I just need to find it!

Ready To Explore:


Song Of The Day: Grendel - Dirty
Reason: Not listened to Grendel for ages, they were one of the best live bands I've seen though.

Highlight Of The Day: Takeaway Nandos

Inspiration Of The Day: A catalogue from Butlers that my Mum dropped off, it has some really nice stuff and seems decently priced.

Photo Every Day #17

Today I have just been in agony with my shoulder, it seems to hurt every time I have to cough, which is a heck of a lot on a good day nevermind when I have a cold/chest infection! However, I went into job 1 today to drop off some presents for one of my friends who's leaving. We surprised her with some boots she was after for ages. She'd reserved them but before she could buy them another friend came in, she bought them (as a gift for the one who's leaving)! When she came to the till to pick her reserved boots they were gone! We all managed to fib to her and tell her they'd been recalled. She was heartbroken the poor girl! But it was worth it to see her caught off guard when she opened the box. I also discovered a new place to eat. It's called Bap and is round the corner from both of my jobs. It's like a home made version of Subway really, it sells made to order sandwiches. The girl recommended we tried the bbq sweet chilli chicken which was amazing! I will definitely be going there more often.

Twins:


Song Of The Day: Korn - Blind
Reason: One of my ultimate favourite songs and definitely one of the best Korn songs.

Highlight Of The Day: Giving my friend her presents.

Inspiration Of The Day: Black Milk Clothing on Instagram. Pure fashion porn!

Photo Every Day #8

Today we took Quigley to the vets as I'd noticed some little sores around his ears and on the back of his neck. After having a look and taking a skin scraping, the vet said that he seemed to have mites as there were eggs in the skin sample. No wonder he's been looking red and sore. So he's now having spot-on style treatment, one drop on his neck, one near his bum every two weeks until it clears up. Klaus and Jacques are also going in tomorrow to be weighed so they can be treated too, although they seem to be fine. Little Quig weighs 560g! In other news, we're still trying to get rid, ie eat, all o the xmas choccies.

Miniature Pralines:


Song Of The Day: Dido - Here With Me
Reason: I love this album. I remember borrowing it from the library and copying it onto tape and listening to it constantly for months when I was a young teen.

Highlight Of The Day: Getting Quigley on the road to feeling better.

Inspiration Of The Day: Martin Lewis' website/emails about saving money. They're genuinely useful and in the words of Asda; every little helps!

Photo Every Day #209

Tomorrow I'm going shopping in Manchester with my Mum for my birthday presents!!! Yay!! I think I will have to severely hold myself back when we go into Thunder Egg and the Lomography Store! I'm going to take my Mini Diana out too, see if I can get any interesting shots whilst the weather's still nice!

Tiger:


Song Of The Day: Lana Del Rey - Lolyta
Reason: Awesome song, reminds me of A Nightmare Before Christmas in a way!

Highlight Of The Day: Nice end of the day in work with two of my good friends

Photo Every Day #205

Today has ended with a super stressful evening. When I got the rats out for their usual evening play time on the sofa, they managed to knock off the blanket they run about under off and onto the floor with themselves still inside! I didn't see it happen as I was playing with Jacques who was still in the cage. Luckily, both rats had just run under the sofa and I managed to get Quigley out after about 5 minutes. However, Klaus seemed to like his new hiding place and it took me a staggering 2 hours to get him back into his cage! So, I've spent me evening sat on the floor, shifting furniture, lying on the floor to see under the sofa and running back and to to the fridge to get treats. As a result I have a stiff back, numb bum and mild carpet burn on my really sore sunburnt shoulder. Rats! Who'd have em!

In other news, we have added a large round coffee table in brown-black to our front room as well as a large plant with nice white flowers on it. They definately make it seem less like a student house and more like a proper home. I'm still convinced that it's colourless walls and bland carpet stop it from looking like someone really lives there.

Coffee?:


Song Of The Day: Grendel - Soilbleed (V3)
Reason: I still vividly remember hearing this song when seeing Grendel at Eddies in Birmingham. It was the most boring drive there and back (literally in a straight line) but well worth it!

Highlight Of The Day: Klaus finally climbing into the dressing gown to be taken to his cage after several changes of mind!

Photo Every Day #143

Just a quick one as my back is killing and I just want to lie down! When I was feeding the boys before Quigley decided to climb up to their new toy, some ladders with bits hanging off, and climb across. They've only had it since Monday and I've yet to see them near it! Glad at least Quigley likes it though!

Ladders:


Song Of The Day: Uberbyte - Last Human
Reason: It was my walking-round-the-corner-to-work song choice this morning

Photo Every Day #107

Today we got our new rat babies!! We ended up with 3 males and have called them Klaus, Jacques and Quigley, inspired by characters from A Series Of Unfortunate Events.

Trio:


Klaus:


Quigley (Left) & Jacques (Right):


Song Of The Day: Limp Bizkit - Break Stuff
Reason: Super great song when you're angry!