Bertie the Budgie.

On Saturday 27 October, I purchased a budgie on the way home from Wellington. It was a very cold and wet afternoon after 4pm. I chose him from among the budgies at Animates in Lower Hutt. I purchased a large cage and food and toys for him. He was carried inside a little cardboard box inside the cage.
He is turquoise, white and grey with a few dashes of purple. He is a young male budgie and very lively.
I got a cloth to cover him about ten to eight. he protested so I tried again at eight o'clock and he settled down. We have now established eight as his bedtime.
I put on the computer little videos of budgies singing and he tweets with them.
On Wednesday morning when I went to put a dust bath in his cage, he walked over my hand and flew out of the cage. I tried to catch him and he had a great time flying around the roo. Finally after three hours, he perched on the blind rail in the kitchen and I put his cage on the bench beneath him. When I came back from setting up the lounge down below, over an hour later, he was perched on top of the cage peering in. I left him for a while and then when I went back, he was eating seeds in the cage, so I closed the doors of the cage.

FUN IN THE VILLAGE.

On Wednesday, Halloween was celebrated in the Village with a pizza and salad meal accompanied by wine, donated by some Committee members. Some residents dressed up in Halloween costumes. Before the event, the Committee spent time setting up tables and decorating the room with pumpkin balloons. A good time was had by all. One of the residents, who never leaves her unit, joined us a little later and was surprised to see five new people she did not know.