COSMOS BUNNY IN HER NEW HOME

Little Cosmos Bunny sent the Warren this lovely message yesterday! Thank you Cosmos, everyone is thrilled that you have such a lovely new home and that you getting to do some gardening.

Dear Bunny Maker,

I arrived safely at May Cottage back in July and suprised Laura on her Birthday. I am living with Rich and Laura and dog who I really like, they let me watch the Tour de France which is great fun!





I've been playing in tthe garden, reading and even gone on holiday to Northern Ireland where I met two big dogs who made me laugh when they play football!

I've been in the garden lots helping Rich grow the tomatoes and just look at my sunflower, think Widget might like a look at that!!

I hope you are all well and happy at the Warren!
Love to everyone,

Cosmos xo

Widget is very, very jealous of the sunflower as his is, between you and me, pants! It still hasn't flowered as is certainly not 'giant' as it said on the packet.

The TOY SOCIETY - WE DID IT!

Today was a very busy day for The Warren - what with getting new school things for the bunnies and visiting some friends we also 'dropped' the bunny for the Toy Society project.

The bunnies had a swimming lesson today (it's very important not to drown in the Half an Acre pond) and it was decided that the changing rooms at the pool might be a good public place to leave a toy.

Here he is, hanging on the back of a big 'family size' changing room door. So now all we have to do is hope that somebody finds him and gives him a nice home. Hopefully the person who finds him will contact the Toy Society to let them know but if they don't then it doesn't really matter. What matters is bringing a smile to someones day.
If you want to take part in the project all details you need are on their blog - The Toy Society.

THE TOY SOCIETY PROJECT

As it is September The Warren bunnies are celebrating going back to school at 'The Institute of Vegetable Growing" by taking part in a project run by The Toy Society.

"The Toy Society is a craft/street art project spreading love throughout the streets of the world. From Melbourne to Lisbon, Antwerp to Michigan and everywhere inbetween. The Toy Society is all about giving you a 'something for nothing' experience."

The idea is to hand make a toy and put it into a bag with the relevant instructions provided by the Toy Society and a big label saying 'Take Me Home'. It is then hung somewhere in public to be discovered.

These two bunnies below have been selected....













... and parcelled up ready for the off sometime this week....

The 'drop site' has to be photographed too so Widget will be taking these two off in the next few days. The bunnies are lobbying for air holes to be put into the bags but I'm concerned about rain getting in. Suffocated bunnies or soggy bunnies?

ALL SORTS OF NEWS FROM ALL SORTS OF FRIENDS

The Warren received lots of exciting new over the summer. Rainbow Bunny, all the way over in Florida, sent news of the arrival of Bertie Basset from Hotdog and Me...

There was a message from Neon in Holland, telling how excited he was to receive a letter from his girlfriend Little Spotty ....

Hello!
I was really surprised when I received a letter specially for me--its a letter from my bunnyfriend Little Spotty! So nice. Chantal made a picture of me reading the letter.
Bye hopping bye,
Lots of love
Neon

It's very nice here in Schiedam!
Kisses to all the other sweet bunnies.


Checker Bunny went to live with Blissknits but it all went a bit wrong and her carrot didn't go with her! That was not all - she thought her baby, Pinky, had got into the travelling box with her and was snuggled down into the tissue paper but on arrival there was neither carrot nor Pinky!! It was all very worrying but Pinky was soon sent off to be reunited. You can see Checker Bun and Pinky being reunited on Blissknits blog here.


There are also a new bunny pal - Miss Bella Bunkin, kitchen bunny, champion knicker chewer and ankle licker! She lives in the kitchen of Heather of PrettyThingsJewellery and was caught stealing knickers from the laundry basket! Thornton Bunny lives in the living room with his girlfriend, Grace. Grace hates Bella because she sneaks in to try and steal Thornton from her. Bella tries to sneak in to see Thornton when Grace isn't looking! The picture is of Bella helping with the shopping!











These two are Thornton, on the left, looking calm and casual whilst Grace, on the right, is practicing her back-leg-kick-hop for when Bella pops in see Thornton!

HOLIDAY STOW-AWAY

Widget and the bunnies all spent three weeks on the Isle of Wight, as has been done for time immemorial. It was pretty dismal weather when we set off and, when we arrived at the car ferry in Portsmouth, we discovered that we were not alone in the car. There was a stowaway!

Jeremy Beagle! He must have snuck in when we were packing up the car. I'm sure the rabbit and the horse must have had something to do with it!
Just after we took that photo something BAD happened ......

The Bunny Maker's husband (not especially a bunny lover) decided that the windscreen was a bit steamed up!! JEREMY!!!! NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Luckily he was okay, slightly taken aback and soggy, but okay nonetheless.

Luckily Widget was hidden away and the other bunnies were safely in their tub trug in the back of the car!

How not to enter a competition.

I seem to be able to do quite a lot of these 'How not to ...' posts. Hmmmm, I wonder why? Perhaps I should be learning something about myself from all this!

So - this competition? There was a feature about it in the Daily Telegraph about it - The V&A World Beach Project. Fabulous. I was right over the road from a beach! Make some beach art, photograph it and send in the pictures. You can then plot the exact location on their google map. YAY! Love it!

Ta da da da daaaaaaaa!
Sand Face!

Okay - it's not a masterpiece. It didn't take me very long but there it is. I took this one picture of it.

Last night I did all my uploading and downloading and sideloading of pictures and got down to the business of entering the competition. Now here's the 'how not to' bit.
When entering a competition READ THE INSTRUCTIONS.
Oh how simple.

So - here are the instructions for you to read so you can see why I can't enter.
The V&A World Beach Project

Gah! And I'm not right over the road from the beach anymore. Poo. What an idiot.

WIDGET NEEDS YOUR VOTES!

Hop...hop...hop.....PHEW! Widget and Co are back from their lovely long holiday and first off Widget needs your votes! His diary blog Widget's Year has been accepted as a nomination for the Dorset Cereal's Little Blog Awards - and, as it stands, he has NO VOTES!! NO VOTES!! Okay, the reason he has none is because the blog has only just been accepted.... Click on the link below and hit the 'vote' button and it's all done ....

There are lots of updates coming in the next few days as The Bunny Maker rises up through the holiday backlog - Widget still had his picture taken every day whilst on holiday and all those will be added shortly. Keep coming back - there are LOTS of exciting things in the pipeline this autumn!

And now you can vote for this blog too by using the link in the sidebar.

NEWS FROM GLOBAL BUNNY

As you all know, Global Bunny has been staying on Ocracoke Island, NC with good friend Tricia and her fuzzy doggies. She has had THE busiest time and just sent back these pictures of her time helping Ranger Laura to feed the ponies that live on the island.

I'm amazed that she is still hanging onto her carrot especially considering the size of some of the ponies!

She has also been doing some gardening which she is very happy about. The weather back home in England hasn't been very good for vegetable growing and she is so excited to be in charge of the tomato patch where the plants are actually growing!

The Bunny Maker loves Ocracoke and is hoping that Global Bun will get to go to one of her favourite places, South Point and perhaps find a Sand Dollar or two.

The Missing Carrot and a lost baby..

Oh no! The missing carrot! The lovely Blissknits won a free carrot when she bought Checker Bun during my 100th Bunny Sale Promotion and the carrot didn't arrive! I'm sure I put it in which only means one thing - Checker Bun ate is in transit!!!


She looks so innocent though. All the bunnies are under strict instructions NOT to eat the carrots but she did get held up during postage so perhaps the carroty smell got too much.

Anyway - a new carrot was hastily dispatched. Just as I was packing it up I felt a little tickle against my wrist. Looking down I saw a very small, very sad baby bunny! Checker Bun had gone off without her baby! How awful!
I quickly made a warm nesting bag for Baby Pinky and settled her into a travelling box with the carrot.


I really am going to have to be much more careful from now on! A mummy going off without her baby will not do! There are lots of babies appearing at The Warren making it a very hectic, noisy and bouncy place. I'm going to have to implement some kind of system so babies don't get separated from their parents.

NEON NEWS....

Remember that Neon Sockbunny also went with Little Spotty to live in the Netherlands? Neon was a little sad when Little Spotty went to live with Tessa but it seems that they are still seeing a lot of each other. Neon has even got himself some wheels ....

I hope he has been wearing a helmet as ears aren't that much protection. And that is not all either......

He's gone and got himself some rollerskates! He and Little Spotty have swapped sleeping bags, they were so pleased to see each other. I'm not sure how Neon manages to steer his skate around corners but I know the bunnies love have their ears streaming in the wind. The bunnies back here are, as I type, trying to construct their own skate out of a Croc shoe and and old beer bottle. It's not going well. Neon certainly looks pleased to see Little Spotty back safe and well from her trip to london.

The Warren has also heard back from Global Bunny on Ocracoke! She's had a very busy time and will have her own post in a day or two. See you then!