A Milestone to Celebrate ...

Hi Everyone,
It's Sweetie here again.  My Kingdom has returned to normal. All is good in the land. The rodent has returned from whence it came!!! Ahhh, bliss!

I have some wonderful news to share with you all.  Guess what I found today! Go on guess.....  No? Okay well I'll just tell you.  It's very exciting....  Young Willow or "Will" as we like to call her,




her, just .....  I know the suspense is killing me too. Let me just get on with it ...  Now where was I?   Oh yes.  Young Will celebrated a huge milestone today.  She laid her first egg!!!  Yep, her very first goog!    She is so clever, we didn't hear a peep out of her.  And to think Patches kept telling us she was a he. How wrong can my brother be? Luckily for Will she is a SHE or you know how it goes for the boy chooks once they start crowing in suburban neighbourhoods.  Thank goodness we don't have to worry about all that. So long as we keep quiet, spayed or neutered, to our selves and out of trouble, we are fine, especially if we are luck enough to reside in a castle!  Okay your right, I am very happy at the moment and yes I have forgiven My Yollie. Now that everything has returned to normal, who can stay mad with such a loving and caring human? Well not I.  So until next time, take care Sweetie xox

Please forgive Miss Sweetie....(A message from Yollie)

 Hello,
I'ts Yollie here. I'm filling in for Sweetie.  Not that I really have a choice. As I am sure you have seen she is not happy and is currently hiding out in her burrow.  I thought I should do the right thing and introduce you to our little guest, also called Sweetie.

 All that sulking for nothing really.  This little girl is a pleasure to look after. She is no bother at all. The best bit is that she goes home in 2days.  I really don't know what my bunny is fussing over!

I would hardly call this little treasure anything but precious.  (Just keep it between us though) You have seen how my "baby" bunny gets with what she considers "competition".








That is about it from me, I'm not really very good at the blog writing thing. I'll leave that for Sweetie (bunny) when she comes out of hiding.
Take care, Yollie

Let me know when the rodent has left the building!

Hi, it's a "not very happy" Sweetie here,

I am not a very happy bunny at the moment.  Can you believe what My Yollie has done? She has opened her home to none other than a Guinea Pig!!! A rodent, like it's not bad enough we have to contend with mice but now a real life Guinea Pig.  To top it off it's name is also "Sweetie" so not only to I have to share my castle, but my name too!!!  Did I mention I'm not happy? :o( !!!!!!!!!  So just let me know when the "visitor" has gone!  I'll be in my burrow.  Until my kingdom returns to normal, Sweetie xx

Do you see me, in my burrow?  I'm behind Will

 Oh, I can't bear to look at her, and she has the same name as me!!!  Yep that's right I share my name with a rodent!

Has she gone yet?!?

All Hail, The Emperor visits the Fairy Castle

Hi Everyone,

It's Sweetie here,  big news today!  We had a very important visitor to our Castle.  It was a short, broad, smooth but spiky looking caterpillar. Oh, a caterpillar I hear you say, well  not just any old caterpillar but an Emperor Gum Moth (once it goes through metamorphosis) none the less!!

Here take a look at the regal little guy...

He crawled onto a paper towel, and kept very still for a photo.  I think we even got a cheesy grin!!

Here's a photo of an Australian stamp with the little guy on it : 

and this is what the little guy will look like one day:

Onto other news.  My Yollie brought this adorable little lady home from the local fleet market on the week end. What do you think.  I call her "Mabel Bunny" I think it suites her.  I like how she keeps an eye on our fruit and vegetable harvest. I made sure I had a good chat with her, to make sure she's up with all the goings on of castle life here.  I think she will fit in just great.  Dad and Mum seem to like her too. Who knows with my goofy brother, no one really knows what he's thinking most of the time!!

And finally, I just wanted to say, Happy Birthday Chessy, 10 today!!!!  He has had a lovely day, doing what he does best.  He kept an eye on us while we were having our morning romp while the other eye was having a rest.  He shooed away the pigeons while the chooks had their brekky and then had a big nap, in the bit of sun we had today on top of the hay bale.  After his nap he caught that pesky mouse who should know better than scurrying around his resting area and left it for My Yollie.  He got a nice supper of warm oats with butter and milk followed by some birthday chicken (please don't tell the feathered ones that live here!!).  All in all a wonderful day!  Take care till next time, Sweetie xox

It's a full moon tonight!!

Hi Everyone,

It's Sweetie here.  Hope you are all ready for the full moon tonight?  

Every full moon is such a strange event for us. 

 Firstly "Beast" (Holly to all you humans) gets all moody and hyper, pacing up and down the yard, I don't know what she is expecting? Then she sits and gazes at the moon, I tell you it's creepy! Enough to make a little bunny want to hide in the dungeon and stick her head in the hay!!!  

Next our faithful mouser "Chester" goes all mysterious and sneaky. 
I tell you, it's the moon, it has to be.  He even makes this funny chatter sound as he creeps around our castle's boundary. I just hope it's the mice he's chattering too!  Oh, yes almost forgot, it has not stopped raining ALL day.  I mean it, ALL DAY!!  Luckily my Yollie topped up the dungeon with fresh crisp hay (perfect for snuggling and hiding from "lunatic" beasts) too keep us dry and clean.
Well that's about it from me, back to the dungeon to keep safe and far from all the "Lunatics".  
Till next time, keep well - Sweetie xox

A day of contrasts...

Hi it's Sweetie,
So, today has been interesting.  The temperature reached 31 and humid, but by late afternoon it changed completely.  It starting blowing a gale and my Yollie tells us to expect thunder storms.
My Yollie was busy tying down anything that moves and locking us up nice and tight in the castle.  She even took down our favourite wind chime for the night, so we can get some sleep!  This morning however was fabulous.  My family and I had the best time exploring around the castle grounds.  I got into to all sorts of  interesting places.  I like to keep a really, really close eye on things especially anything new or different.
 I love musical or sparkly things and if I'm lucky, sometimes my "Little Human" leaves me treasures to find. Today it was fairies, with sparkly wings that move!!  I had a ball playing with them,  I love to toss them around and pretend they are flying I was having the best time!  Until, Patches! He is always spoiling my fun, I'm starting to think he                                                        

does it on purpose, brothers!!  I'll tell you what happened.  He decided to come over, I tried to hide my secret find but unfortunately they sparkled just at the wrong time!  He ruined the game, he was too rough and started to nibble on the wings, I know how rude!!!! So my Yollie took them away.  It's ok, I gave him a really good chase around the grounds. I'm much fitter and faster than him, so when I caught up to him he got a nip on the rump!  Serves him right, teach him to spoil my fun!  

Onto happier things, our garden is going fabulously, all the melons are growing each day and the butternut pumpkins are really taking off now and my Yollie is picking lots of tomatoes each day.  I love this time of year, especially when we get little treats straight from the garden when my Yollie goes past with her bounty on her way inside.  I thought I would share a quick clip where my dad comes in to see what I'm up to in the castle dungeon.  Hope you like it.  Till next time, take care.

 Sweetie xox

Happy Valentines Day!

Hi everyone, it's Sweetie here.

I have a very interesting fact to share with you all today. Did you know there is no other more romantic, loving and smoochy animal than bunnies??

No?

Well you do know what they say
"breed like bunnies"
Well, we had to get the reputation from somewhere!

In my humble bunny opinion I  think we are very smoochy,

Happy Valentines Day EveryBun!!!

(My Mummy and Daddy having a smooch)

Hey, get a warren already!!!!

From Sweetie.... and remember 'Don't be shy to say Hi !!!'