Been a while

What a hectic month April turned out to be!

One of the reasons for not updating this soon was I inadvertently broke the power cable for the laptop and thus for a while we had no internet (nooo!) which was interesting... luckily that got fixed.

But April was a month of endurance for us. One of the problems that troubled us was our bearded dragon caught mites (a bit like fleas but for reptiles) and we were having to spend a lot of time and money that we didn't have on trying to sort him out as best as possible. In the end the best medicine seemed to be coating him in olive oil! I think he's nearly forgiven us...

Not before we'd finished with Rusty than during our trip home for Michelle's engagement party Tom had his own medical problem which lead to us being dropped off in Cheltenham A&E for about 9 hours. He had a problem with his chest which required many blood samples, X-rays, blood pressure readings and monitoring before they performed a small procedure on him and, thankfully, sent him home rather than keep him in overnight. We had a few days away from work together to keep an eye on each other and let him get his strength back up. He's been declared fit and healthy again now.

We also got a bit of a shock recently when we found out one of out geckos is actually a male! We had thought we had two girls, and unfortunately put them in the same tank assuming they would live a peaceful existence. Instead, some violent mating has occurred, and tonight we found the first batch of gecko eggs! We're currently trying to incubate them with a hope to hatch them and sell them to a reptile shop as we really can't keep any. Hopefully the couple will not produce too many more as we're more concerned with the possible health effects on the female laying them, but she managed the first two ok, and judging by the size of them we think it must have been a great relief!

Hopefully this next month will be a smoother transition into a more stable household routine where we can actually do the things we need (and want) and not be too hindered with the financial problems we've had over the past few months.

And I'm really getting into Bill Bryson books. I think I have more patience than when I was a teenager.