Today Sam and I made the journey into work as I needed to speak to my manager about what flexible working options were available to me if I decided to come back to work at the end of my maternity leave. If I did return to work it would have to be on very different terms as I would only do it if I could work from home part time. So my manager will try to find out if anything can be arranged to make this possible – but I won’t know for sure for a good while.

Sam was very well behaved and charmed everyone that he met – especially all the ladies 🙂 He was also very good for my meeting and occasionally piped up with a comment that he felt needed making.

After catching up with my work colleagues we then went in search of Rich who seemed to think that Sam may make a pretty good boss… hence the photo on the left of Sam taking up position at Rich’s manager’s desk. Rich changed his mind about this though as he didn’t fancy spending all his time trying to stop Sam falling off the office chair.

I’m very sad to announce that Fidget has finally scampered off to a better place.

She had been ill for about 3 months after catching an ear infection that later spread to her brain. Over these months she got increasingly frail and recently seemed to stop looking after herself altogether. Rich and I were starting to think that we would have to take her to the vet for what would most likely be her final visit but before we could do that she passed away at home.

We are both very glad to have had little Fidget in our lives and will always think of her fondly. She was such a lovely and gentle hamster who was always curious and very, very daft. Thanks for the last two years Fidget – I hope that you enjoyed spending them with us as much as we enjoyed having you around.

Rich has put up some footage of Fidget from when we were living in our old flat – go and have  a look see at what a daft hamster she was.