I've just moved from a shared house to renting my own little garden flat, still in Bristol, and am now surrounded by boxes and clutter. Not much change there! All went fairly smoothly apart from having a single bedframe delivered by the geniuses at Tesco, which didn't really work with the double mattress they brought at the same time...

In more thrilling news as the letting agency/landlady are okay with pets (to a certain degree) I also now have a pair of gerbils named Fruit Loop and Shreddie! They are currently still pretty freaked out by me whenever I move or talk or look at them or breathe in their vicinity, but they have had a glorious time shredding a large quantity of cardboard and digging tunnels in their tank. Typically they much pefer this to going in the cage topper I constructed, which I expected, but has led to me to have to stick water bottles to the inside of the tank in case they die of deydration by not wanting to use the bottle in the cage topper. Yes I'm an overprotective first time gerbil mother/owner/whatever, shush.

If anyone is nosy or interested, there are some piccies of new flat here and gebils here!

As a bonus teaser, this is an action shot of Shreddie digging her lil' gerbilly heart out: