Rain or snow?

Rain or snow?

Published: 13/01/2017 Comments: 0

Rain or snow? That is the question. I'm writing this blog a day early as I may not have much time tomorrow. However, everything seems to rather depend on the weather. I have a couple of appointments tomorrow but I won't be venturing out in the car if it snows. I could walk to my afternoon appointment but my meeting in the morning would mean driving up an extremely steep hill. I suppose that's what you get when you move to a place called 'High' Wycombe. 

It's been a busy week catching up after the festive season. It's been a good week as I like to be busy. My tarantula sale is going well. I have cleared quite a few in preparation for new stock at the end of the month. I have plans for new spiders, scorpions, stick insects and other interesting bugs. It very much depends on what is available. I was working on my computer one evening earlier this week when I heard what sounded like an alarm going off. I rushed into my bug room next door to my office and realised that it was my male Giant Burrowing African cricket calling to the female. They tend to spend almost all their time underground and are very secretive. I don't think I have heard him since the summer and I don’t recall it being that loud. Goodness knows what the neighbours thought! I grabbed my phone and started to video. I intend to put it on Facebook when I get time. It's not a great video as I was rushing to get to the tank before he disappeared but you do get to see and more importantly hear him. I have a black-out cover around the tank so that I can lift it and have a peek at the crickets without disturbing them too much. I can see the female in her burrow but I can't tell if she has any eggs. I live in hope!

Hubby and I went Christmas shopping for each other yesterday. We missed most of the sales but it was a lot less crowded than before Christmas. I bought him a new camera (he can take better pictures of my bugs), well that's what I thought but as you all know by now he doesn't share my passion at all. He bought me an Apple Watch. It looks fantastic, I'm picking it up this afternoon as it needed to be ordered in for collection today. I did try it out in the Apple Store and it's amazing! I just love Apple and it means I won't need my iPhone attached to me at all times. The iPhone 7 is a bit big to wear on my belt and it does look very silly under a jumper. I did point out to my hubby that he will have to learn how to use it and then teach me. I'm very enthusiastic but although I try, all this technology just doesn't come naturally to me. If it isn’t living and breathing I’m pretty clueless.

We also now have an iDoorBell (called iRing), it’s brilliant but a bit spooky. I got totally fed up with not hearing the doorbell when I am in my bug room. We have tried everything, wired-in, cordless, you name it we have tried it but I always ended up finding a note through the door either saying “we tried to deliver and you weren’t in” (I was!) or we have left your parcel at “number whatever”. It is really frustrating so before Christmas we ‘invested’ (they are really expensive) in a doorbell that links up with all our Apple products. Can’t miss it now! My iPhone, hubby’s iPhone, both iPads and my Apple Mac computer all chime loudly. When we are out we can now answer the doorbell as there is a video link. It was so odd talking to the postman and being able to see him on the path when we were out in Luxembourg over new year! The trouble is you don’t want to tell people you are away but the delivery guys must wonder what is going on when you say that you can’t come to the door at the moment. Since I discovered Amazon we do get a lot of parcels and of course running a postal business means I rely on the post so I’m very pleased we bought the bell. It is more than a bit ‘big brother is watching you’ though.

Well it is now Friday morning, ran out of time as usual! We do have snow, not that much but enough to stop me driving. I just hope it goes away before Monday and doesn’t have an effect on my posting days next week. Thankfully orders have picked up since Christmas and I am back to advertising my Ginny’s Jungle parties again. I went to a very good local reptile shop this week and they kindly put some of my leaflets out and a local magazine have put together a free advert for me this month. There are some very nice people around! I have just looked out of my office window and it is snowing again. Roll on the Spring! My Apple watch wasn’t there when I went to collect itL but should be arriving in store today (just hope I can get there).

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