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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 226777" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>I'd love to see a picture of that parrot. Do you know what kind it is?</p><p></p><p>There are some great websites tat can teach you how to look after your parrots, we use Talkbudgies.com. difficult child 3 is a member there although he doesn't post very much. We learned a great deal and now have very happy budgies who have the run of the house. They go to bed in their cage at the end of the day but otherwise spend most of their day in my sunny bathroom, their playgym standing on a stool. husband made the play gym for them, I can highly recommend one (ours is small). It needn't cost much, we made ours out of fallen timber in the backyard, fastened to a board a foot square. I've attached some home-made toys to it, including a Beijing Olympics McDonalds toy I found. Plus a small tube, which we fill with water and put budgie-safe flowers and leaves into. The main hassle for me, is if I'm putting on makeup in my bathroom, the boy budgie (he's hand-tame) will fly down and perch on my head, so he can get a better look at himself in the mirror. He then tries to nibble my eyebrows. Or if I'm on the loo, he will fly down and want to play with me. A bit disconcerting. I've been sitting there reading a book, to find a budgie perched on my book. Or if I'm doing a puzzle, he wants to attack the pencil.</p><p></p><p>The weirdest gift I got this year was an iDog. I thought it was just a cute way of having iPod speakers, but the blasted thing is apparently also like a Tamagotchi, in tat it makes noises, it barks, it whines, it growls and flashes certain lights depending on how it's feeling. I suspect it will chew through the batteries fast.</p><p></p><p>A couple of weeks before Christmas, I put a bid in on a silent auction (a fundraiser) for a painting I've wanted for a long time - and got it! The amount I bid was about half what it had been offered for sale, unfinished at the time, when it was first painted three years ago. And even then, it was cheap. So husband said that I already had my gift from him, and he would claim it also as my gift to him, we weren't to get each other anything for Christmas because I'd already spent it! I offered to immediately send it to a Sydney gallery where it would undoubtedly fetch five times what I paid for it; somehow he didn't want to do that. I think he likes it too.</p><p>I had been nagging husband to buy some shares while the market is so low, but now I've spent any money we'd have used on shares. This is my alternative to investing in the share market.</p><p>The problem is, you can't get emotionally attached to shares.</p><p></p><p>I know it makes us sound very rich and exclusive - nup. Just lucky. Plus our PM gave us A$1000 with the instruction to spend it all fast. It's our government's reaction to the world financial crisis - inject money into the economy and make sure the money goes into circulation, fast like an adrenalin shot. So they targeted the poorest and neediest people in Australia - pensioners and carers - and gave us a thousand bucks each. All a month before Christmas. Our notification of it only arrives two days before Christmas, but others got it ages ago. Last heard, it's been working - we've had record spending this Christmas. I believe that if this doesn't work enough, they have another possible release coming up.</p><p></p><p>Of course, you can imagine how the opposition politicians are reacting to this tactic... the trouble for them, though, is this seems to be working.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 226777, member: 1991"] I'd love to see a picture of that parrot. Do you know what kind it is? There are some great websites tat can teach you how to look after your parrots, we use Talkbudgies.com. difficult child 3 is a member there although he doesn't post very much. We learned a great deal and now have very happy budgies who have the run of the house. They go to bed in their cage at the end of the day but otherwise spend most of their day in my sunny bathroom, their playgym standing on a stool. husband made the play gym for them, I can highly recommend one (ours is small). It needn't cost much, we made ours out of fallen timber in the backyard, fastened to a board a foot square. I've attached some home-made toys to it, including a Beijing Olympics McDonalds toy I found. Plus a small tube, which we fill with water and put budgie-safe flowers and leaves into. The main hassle for me, is if I'm putting on makeup in my bathroom, the boy budgie (he's hand-tame) will fly down and perch on my head, so he can get a better look at himself in the mirror. He then tries to nibble my eyebrows. Or if I'm on the loo, he will fly down and want to play with me. A bit disconcerting. I've been sitting there reading a book, to find a budgie perched on my book. Or if I'm doing a puzzle, he wants to attack the pencil. The weirdest gift I got this year was an iDog. I thought it was just a cute way of having iPod speakers, but the blasted thing is apparently also like a Tamagotchi, in tat it makes noises, it barks, it whines, it growls and flashes certain lights depending on how it's feeling. I suspect it will chew through the batteries fast. A couple of weeks before Christmas, I put a bid in on a silent auction (a fundraiser) for a painting I've wanted for a long time - and got it! The amount I bid was about half what it had been offered for sale, unfinished at the time, when it was first painted three years ago. And even then, it was cheap. So husband said that I already had my gift from him, and he would claim it also as my gift to him, we weren't to get each other anything for Christmas because I'd already spent it! I offered to immediately send it to a Sydney gallery where it would undoubtedly fetch five times what I paid for it; somehow he didn't want to do that. I think he likes it too. I had been nagging husband to buy some shares while the market is so low, but now I've spent any money we'd have used on shares. This is my alternative to investing in the share market. The problem is, you can't get emotionally attached to shares. I know it makes us sound very rich and exclusive - nup. Just lucky. Plus our PM gave us A$1000 with the instruction to spend it all fast. It's our government's reaction to the world financial crisis - inject money into the economy and make sure the money goes into circulation, fast like an adrenalin shot. So they targeted the poorest and neediest people in Australia - pensioners and carers - and gave us a thousand bucks each. All a month before Christmas. Our notification of it only arrives two days before Christmas, but others got it ages ago. Last heard, it's been working - we've had record spending this Christmas. I believe that if this doesn't work enough, they have another possible release coming up. Of course, you can imagine how the opposition politicians are reacting to this tactic... the trouble for them, though, is this seems to be working. Marg [/QUOTE]
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