Love All Budgies Day on the 1st of July!

[sweetpea]

Hello all. I am happy to announce a new, special day in the calendar for budgies! This is the first year for "Love All Budgies Day" It has been set up in honour of dearly departed forum member Rose.

Please check out the website:
loveallbudgiesday.wordpress.com



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WHAT is Love All Budgies Day ?
Love All Budgies Day was started in 2023, inspired by a lovely lady called Rose.
From an early age, Rose had a deep passion for budgies that lasted her whole life until she died, in August 2022. To honour her memory, and her deep love for budgies, we have created this day to fill the internet with pictures of those little, characterful birds she so adored.

WHY is it called Love All Budgies Day ?
When setting up this day, we came up with a number of possible names. However, during our search, we discovered the following comment from Rose, back in 2020, on a budgerigar blog: “Why haven’t they scheduled a Love All Budgies day? That’s what the world really needs…”
It felt like an instruction from Rose herself. So, Love All Budgies Day it is!

HOW do I celebrate Love All Budgies Day ?
Simply share a photo of a budgie and tag your post with #loveallbudgiesday !
The photo can be of a real budgie or some form of budgie art, perhaps a drawing, painting, sculpture or any craft. Any level of expertise is welcome. As Rose once said, “Any picture with even a millimetre of a budgie on it could under no circumstances be considered a failure!” The important thing is to share the budgie love!

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Some of you may recognise some of the budgies on the website. I would like to have more budgie photos in the gallery, so if you have any photos/drawings that you would like to be included, then let me know!

If any of you are on social media then feel free to share the images available on the "Downloads" page.

Thanks!

[Loz]

Lovely.

Wow, Snowy was a striking bird, Marianne Marlow!

sweetpea, I will try to find a photo or two for the site.

[Loz]

A very young Eeyore & Mr Hibs:



Mr Hibs, Squeak, Patch & Eeyore:



And because I am useless at choosing, a third one. Eeyore, Patch, Squeak & Mr Hibs:

[tweetiepiesmom]

One of my favorite things is looking at budgies and pictures of budgies!

[skysmum]

This is so lovely sweetpea, a beautiful tribute to Rose.

Lovely to see my JoJo, Chilli and Evie on there 😊

[sweetpea]

Thank you, loz! I added the first two photos of your gang but couldn't work out how to save the third one!

[Marianne Marlow]

This website is amazing and a wonderful tribute to Rose.

I especially love the section "In Rose's words". Rose was very funny and knew her budgies well!

loveallbudgiesday.wordpress.com/in-roses-words/

[Marianne Marlow]

Yes Snowy was beautiful!

Jun 23, 2023 15:46:00 GMT loz said:

Lovely.

Wow, Snowy was a striking bird, Marianne Marlow!

sweetpea, I will try to find a photo or two for the site.

[Hezz]

As I’ve already said, it is a wonderful piece of work, sweetpea, and a beautiful tribute to our dear Rose 🌹.
Please consider some of the following photos as well, I would really love to see one of Mango up there.

[sweetpea]

Jun 24, 2023 8:45:00 GMT Marianne Marlow said:

Yes Snowy was beautiful!

Jun 23, 2023 15:46:00 GMT loz said:

Lovely.

Wow, Snowy was a striking bird, Marianne Marlow!

sweetpea, I will try to find a photo or two for the site.

Can I put these pics in the gallery too, Marianne Marlow?

Am I right in saying they are of Snowy, Roswell, Monty, Custard I, Jerry & Sky?? (Always get Sky & Blithe mixed up!)

[sweetpea]

Jun 25, 2023 0:48:38 GMT Hezz said:

As I’ve already said, it is a wonderful piece of work, sweetpea, and a beautiful tribute to our dear Rose 🌹.
Please consider some of the following photos as well, I would really love to see one of Mango up there.

Thanks Hezz! I've already got some of yours in the gallery, including Mango.

The one where they are lined up, are they Bunji, Misty, Mango, Spyro & Piper??

[Hezz]

This one, sweetpea ? It’s an oldie: Sparky, Misty, Mango, Spyro and Smudge. (Two out of five ain’t bad. )

[Marianne Marlow]

Yes of course you can sweetpea.

In the mirror photo it's "Snowy, Sky, Monty, Custard I, Roswell and Jerry"

Blithe came much later than that photo, he never met Snowy, Monty, Custard I or Jerry.

Dumpling, Hector and Blueboy would have been around at this time, but were obviously off doing more interesting things when the photo was taken!

Jun 25, 2023 23:09:50 GMT sweetpea said:

Jun 24, 2023 8:45:00 GMT Marianne Marlow said:

Yes Snowy was beautiful!

Can I put these pics in the gallery too, Marianne Marlow ?

Am I right in saying they are of Snowy, Roswell, Monty, Custard I, Jerry & Sky?? (Always get Sky & Blithe mixed up!)

[Marianne Marlow]

Hezz Do you have any of Bluey with his friends? I think the one in your profile is the only picture I have ever seen of him.

Jun 26, 2023 1:10:36 GMT Hezz said:

This one, sweetpea ? It’s an oldie: Sparky, Misty, Mango, Spyro and Smudge. (Two out of five ain’t bad. )

[tweetiepiesmom]

Marianne Marlow, that pic of Snowy reminds me of an aunt when I was a teen always saying to me "get that hair away from your eyes"!