Parrots Have A Shower

Amy will often give her parrots a shower- they love going under the water and love being blow dried. When they have first had their shower Amy says they look like little dinosaurs- you can see why. This is Lyra the female eclectus:

 This is Beau -the male eclectus:

And below is what they normally look like!

Adelaide

Bill  and I went off to Adelaide to visit his mum over the Queen's Birthday Long Weekend. Unfortunately  Bill was not well, has had some ongoing skin problems which got really bad while we were in Adelaide so we did not do much. We were there mainly to spend time with his mum which we were able to do. After a week of minus 4's and 6's in Canberra Adelaide was positively balmy- I think it got down to 7 degrees one night and we had a 19 during the day. Bill's mum lives in Toorak Gardens- takes about 40 minutes to walk into the city, so each day I went for some nice long walks to keep me occupied! Adelaide has some lovely stone buildings and houses and lots of lovely parklands to explore. On the Saturday Marian dropped me off at the Central Markets and I enjoyed checking out the different stalls then walked home via Rundle Mall. Below are just a few photos of Adelaide.