We went out today to get some issues with hardware sorted. One Kindle Fire had broken, and one iPad was not switching on. My darling Hubby Dearest has the gift of the gab and can usually get what he’s after!
We also needed to buy football boots for Lil Princess who is starting football training this week.
Never thought we’d come home with two additions that were alive, rather than two new electrical devices!
What could it be?!
Meet Heer (the blue girl) and Ranhja (the green boy), our two new parrotlets! They are six months old and pretty much fully grown.
And what of our fur-baby Sonu Singh?
Sonu Singh thinks I’m his bed!
Well, he was intrigued! What were these funny little flying things that were chirruping away?
What’s going on??
He came over to take a closer look too…
Who ARE you!?
I tried to get the phone into the cage for a closer look… and he was there in the background too!
I can see you…
They are pretty little things, a fledgling couple who could, if we decide to, us a nest box to mate and lay eggs!
How did we end up with them?
Well, we popped into a pet shop that just caught our eye as we wandered around the shopping centre, and the next thing you know, I saw these two, and they just melted my heart. They aren’t too big, the size of budgies, and they were cuddled up together in a perch.
I fell in love.
And Hubby Dearest took full advantage of my soft spot! If he had his way we;d have dogs, rabbits, a tortoise, chickens, a full menagerie!
So, after walking around the shops we ended up back there and left a bit financially lighter, but fuller in the family way!
Here they are, settling in to their new home!
Now to the names… Why Heer and Ranjha?
Well, like Sonu Singh got his Punjabi name, living in a Punjabi family, I needed an ethnic pairing for these two too!
Love stories always seem so tragic in our culture, and there is a story of Heer Ranjha. Heer a girl from a rich family, and Ranjha a son of a farmer, fall in love, and like Romeo and Juliet, they die trying to keep their love alive.
Heer Ranhja
Here’s hoping the tragic ending is not synonymous to the names!
But don’t worry, we won’t be forgetting Sonu Singh, he’ll still be on my bed every night commanding attention!
Naughty cat, sticking his tongue out!
And FYI, we got the football boots, a refund for the Kindle… the iPad is a To Be Continued saga!
I’ll keep you posted on the continuing saga of our furry/feathered family Peeps!
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