Bibbie talks to you

Here is the Bibster making his video debut!

Carrot

Usually I get some thin slivers of carrot cut with the potato peeler. But this time it was offered as a stick. I was a bit unsure - it LOOKED like carrot, sure enough, but.. Mum sid to me "Carrot, Bibbie, you like carrot" and as soon as I heard her say carrot, I grabbed it fast and hoed in. Yum! Mooky, you don't know what you are missing.

Perhaps it is the veggies that are making my feathers fluff?

Hello

Re comment on Dancing...

Two Pis and a Poi said...
Oh Bibbie! I wish there was a video of you dancing! I bet you were wonderful!

My reply

Oh I was! I am! Wonderful, that is!

I told Mum about you wanting a video and she took one straight away. I even obliged with TWO "Hello Cocky"s whilst the camera was running. I didn't dance, of course - it is hard to do that sort of thing on cue.

But then we met a huge problem. Mum didn't know how to put the video on the blog. She did remember SoS doing one ages ago, and worked out how to convert it to a format so it would upload.. and then, sent an SOS to SoS who said she had converted it to the wrong format for one thing and she had to create an account on something like youtube and then copy the code and paste it in.. Mum said she had a headache then, and SoS is going away for a while and anyway Mum would have to post (snailmail not email) SoS in London england a cd of it if she was to do it.. it might take a while, that's the problem. Remember, I live in Melbourne Australia which is a long way away from England. If a video gets on my blog in less than a month or six weeks, you will know Mum managed it AND avoided a nervous breakdown from stress.

You will see the big comment with me eating some food that appeared yesterday. SoS sorted out the broccoli part - from single posts in the wrong order - and then told Mum how to do it. So Mum put on the dessert apple part and managed to get it into the end of the broccoli post just as I always intended.

I tell you this to show there is some hope for poor Mum. She does try, but really.. now if only my hands were a bit different, it would be done in a flash!

SoS also suggested a slide show of me might be nice but that is yet another thing for poor Mum to learn!

Bibbie

What's that?

Some weird things get put in my house!

Better take a better look at THAT!

Don't think you can fool me by putting it in the wall...

Hmmnn.. that's not bad...

in fact....

In fact - it's very nice!

Now, here's a change...

Yes, it is good.

Indeed it is good.

Seriously good! I like a nice piece of apple for dessert. Cleans my teeth, too.

Dancing

I tried out some new steps in light of Swan Lake..   first I stretched out my wings VERY wide and high and then I pointed my toe whilst standing on the other..

 

I thought I looked very good for a novice ballet dancer, but Mum said it reminded her of the goose-step.  Never mind!..

 

Bibbie

Swan Lake

I watched Swan Lake on TV Sunday afternoon.  It looked good.  I think I would make a good swan!  Does anyone know of some ballet lessons I could attend?  All those little leg twiddles really got to me.

Keep me out of the snow please

It was very cold here yesterday. Today Mum went for a drive and said she found this person up in the hills about an hour's careful drive from home. I am very glad he was not in my back yard! Oooh, chilly indeed. I like to stay nice and cosy by my fire stove. None of that cold white stuff round me, please.

My feathers are lovely

Well here I am, cleaning my beak, biting my fingernails, whatever you choose! but the best bit of it all is - have a look at my feathers! On the back of my neck! I have about four pieces of down there and they are getting longer! Oh, I am so proud of myself. A big achievement, that!

And if you look very carefully, there is a tiny bit of another feather showing down on my right side which is the left side as you look at this picture.

I'm an acrobat!

Peep-oh. I am getting more and more acrobatic. See me do the splits. I sometimes like to sleep like this - one foot on my little inside cage door, one on the wire of my big cage..

Beak and Eat!

Yes, folks, it IS easier to eat with a shorter beak. Not so easy to shovel seed out onto the floor, though. And I still don't like to each much apart from seed. Carrot peel is nice, and I asked for and got a little piece of toast a week or so back.

I examined myself carefully today and found, whoo hoo, I definitely have more feathers than I did. I have a short feather growing again on my wing where it broke off last visit to Dr Peter, and a couple of other bits starting. And some bits of fluff on my back and a tiny puff on my lower chest! I am very proud of my new feathers! White and yellow they are. I must get some photos taken of my new clothes.

The fire has been going well the last few days because although it has been lovely and mild and sunny in the middle of the days, it has been very cold in the mornings and evenings. It is staying light later I note, too - it was still light outside at 5.30pm tonight and Mum reminded me the shortest day was around the 21st of June so of course it should start being light later.

Soon I will have something to preen!

Bibbie