As usual I have been working 3 days non stop and trying to care for the bods and eat and do the washing, cleaning etc and all. the bods being my snakes of course.
I had to force feed William today as tempting has produced no results after his medication. I hate force feeding so much but it has had results lately with one of the baby Cornsnakes which ate only once since they hatched in August. I force fed him mouse legs 3 times over 6 weeks and now he is eating on his own - twice since!!!!
William is an experiment now :-{ since I lost Domino and Harry without force feeding and trying to tempt, he hated it but his tum was gurgling so much I couldn't stand he will die anyway if I don't try.

Had an awful gig on Sat night. I was really looking forward to it having a really good email rapport with the person who booked me.
But having eaten at lunchtime and arrived at the event at 6.30pm and performed at 11pm (approx, could have been later)no refreshments were offered and no way of getting anything (I had a job finding a glass to drink water from!!!)No-one spoke to me all night about what they wanted or maybe how things may have changed. (I was booked to dance for 25mins; well, you can't change it unless someone informs you or you're out of contract) while I was on stage someone kept popping out and trying to talk to me whilst I was performing!!!!!!!!!!! God, please where do they come from and please don't invite them into my life again..............
Of course I was tired and HUNGRY so the show wasn't good, to myself anyway, having been 39 yrs professional and I had to cope with a total mess going on stage "the DJ treating me as if I was some 16 yr old girlie" Ohhh we'll let you have one more track!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank goodness the money was good, but it still wasn't worth being degraded at my level of experience.
Two children's parties today, they went great and I feel good about the interaction between the children and snakes.
I'm not sure when next I'll write as I and the snakes have two full days on Tues and Thurs at a school, so busy, busy, busy.

Someone opened their van door while I cycled past this Tuesday and knocked me off my bike so what was supposed to be a nice day for a ride turned out to be a day in hospital.
Luck was on my side as I had no broken bones and hadn't been squashed by any oncoming cars.
Anyway this is supposed to be a snake diary so............
I took William to the vet this week, I was given some medicine to encourage his appetite as he is sadly becoming thinner by the minute.
Once he has finished this - 6 days powder mixed in 25ml of water - if he doesn't eat still I will try to force feed him to get his stomach juices going.
The snakes and I were very busy for two days this week doing presentations at a local school 8 classes Monday and 9 Thursday considering I was aching all over from my fall I managed well, the snakes managed famously, I took 8 snakes and used only 4 for each presentation, trying to give 4 a rest, although it doesn't really work as once they are out they want to stay out not go in and out all the day!!!
We also had our channel 4 - 3 minute wonder film this Thursday but I was so out of touch with reality after my fall that I forgot to ring important family members to tell them and even missed the first minute myself because I was giving William his medication:-}
Since one of the Spotted Pythons died the other is much better behaved, talking to the guy that bred them it seems that, from his experience too they are better living alone. The learning process continues.

Last week whilst in a dreadful state of mess in the house because of having a new kitchen put in, wow I can't believe the 40year old kitchen has at last bitten the dust, and suffering a horrid cold which will not go away no matter how much garlic I ingest (working with children doesn't help I catch everything going) my latest rescue Boa died. She came to live with me in June and 8 months later she's gone, no apparant reason, except that this is the 3rd time this has happened when taking in an older boa, they must be too sensitive about the change of environment and the stress of the move hits them hard. She had to move in with 3 others whom I have kept for 8years or more. I would like to have space for a quarantine area but this just is not possible at home.
I have asked the angels to give me a larger place to keep them but nothing has turned up as yet.
A larger place could also be public so that schools etc. could visit us instead of me having to transport the snakes everywhere.

I thought this would be a good way of keeping a diary of the snake sanctuary and be able to go back over past happenings.