Virginia Cheeseman Blog

Christmas is coming and sadly for my business that means a distinct lack of orders. Plenty of animals, plenty to do but not a lot of orders going out or money coming in. It’s always been this way, schools and universities close down, people are too busy for new pets and most people don’t have the money to spend on themselves just before Christmas but the New Year is sure to be busy so I am using this time to organise my new venture. I will be launching after the festive season but for now I have lots to do and it is all very exciting. I did my first trial “Ginny’s Jungle” party on Saturday (hence no blog last Friday). It went very well, some of you may have seen the photos on my Facebook page. The kids and adults seemed to really enjoy it but I am always ultra critical of myself and think a lot could be improved on, of course that is the idea of having practice parties. I think I’m going in the right direction and I’m getting lots of help. I have arranged a second practice party this m...

No blog this week. Sorry, I'm too busy organising my new business venture "Ginny's Jungle parties". My first practice party is tomorrow, fingers crossed it goes ok!

Short blog this week, the alternative was no blog! I am very busy with all the changes taking place at the moment. It is Friday 13th which doesn't bode well with the fact that when my hubby gets in from work today he will be moving everything over to my new Apple Mac computer and then I will be spending the weekend learning to use the new system (wish me luck). Last weekend we picked up my new car (new to me car), it is a Skoda Yeti, lovely but again very different from my old car and I am also busy arranging everything in preparation for my new business venture in the New Year "Ginny's Jungle parties". I have my first practice party set up for next weekend. I am not giving up my online shop! I am just hoping to diversify a little. I want to concentrate on captive bred stock and buy in less wild caught specimens. Most of my animals are captive bred and it would be great if I could get to the stage where I am only selling captive bred animals and the more I can actuall...

Never a dull moment! I am starting this blog on my iPhone as I am pushed for time and am taking my mother in-law for a hearing appointment. I'm really getting into all this technology, I have never before written my blog on the move. I started in the car waiting for her to come out and now we are sitting in the hearing centre. Halloween was great, my feely box game went down very well with my sister's ten grandchildren. There really weren't many live bugs to be felt (the adults banned them) but the mind is a great thing and the kids were soon screaming as they imagined all sorts of creatures when they put their hand in the box. The photo of me dressed as a spider was popular on Facebook and got more hits than most of my postings. I must try harder next year, I really needed face paints. I tried drawing fangs on but my eye pencil broke! The bugs are thriving on the whole, I still haven't managed to find a suitable cabinet to house my growing collection of scorpions. I h...