Like this:

Oh Greenpeace. I failed you. But more on that later. Fire extinguished, we finally got these two wed. Hoorah. Puddle still had the deflated balloon and failed marriage moodlets, but no matter, in my book this is a successful wedding party. After all, it’s not often the couple actually exchange rings. The poor pony still gets little love. But I’ve discovered she’s a girl, so that’s something, right? Ecover’s not the only one lacking in attention… Ugh, why won’t these sims feed themselves? Ecover does run about a bit, but she still seems very frustrated. I’m not sure she’s keen on being a Daye yet. That, or she’s seen what’s about to happen to the bird. She still gets more attention than Ruth Badger the puppy though, who just gets on with it, although she chewed enough toys to earn herself a ‘non-destructive’ trait, which is nice. You may wonder why Bramble is doing the birthday dance… That’s what happens when you drink a young again potion. With all that birthday business, the ‘feed the bird’ action in her queue never got, er, actioned. It was always coming, but it came in a most undignified way, with a pop up and then texture fail meaning I couldn’t see his corpse. Poor bird – the first, but unlikely to be the last, pet death of my TS3 experience. Unless you count fish. Several of those have died already. But let’s not dwell on the past. We have new family members to meet. Nadine likes lilac, wants to have a golden tongue and golden fingers, and (I think) her traits are friendly, family-oriented, genius, clumsy and virtuoso.  Notice how she has Einstein’s hair, despite only being his adopted grandchild. And yes, I said plural, because here comes the second member of Gen 9… I was in the mood for ironic naming, and Alley’s naming trait was star quality, so meet Leon Jackson. With the X Factor final this weekend, I thought it was timely. He’s easily impressed and excitable and a vampire. But sadly not a ghost. Alley might have procreated with her five star celebrity vampire ghost wife, but the newspapers had not one sniff of it. She’s still really slow in her celebritisation process. Lola earned enough LTH to change her LTW so we went for the one that means you have to collect twenty mini-pets in the wild. I’m hoping it won’t be too hard. She took Ecover out and went hunting. She didn’t, however, manage to bond much with the horse. This is a recurring theme. The family also take forever to feed, touch or assist Ecover in any way.

Finally.

Lola’s caught four pets so far. Two of them escaped from her inventory because she kept them in there too long, we released one and we kept one to kill – a lizard called Tre Azam, continuing the Apprentice theme.

My basements and floors in general have gone skew-wiff since Pets came out. Puddle’s always standing in a void tending to the baby. No-one else cares about the youngster. This family: notsomuch with the kinship, nurturing and love.

Alley got in the papers for fainting and sued for slander (even though it was true). She won over 4K and her celebrity stock still didn’t go up.

Ecover had a birthday and Blackberry rolled the want to be a super Equestrian thingy – to reach level 10 in riding and earn 40K in prize money.

I also – finally – twigged that I needed to build some horse jumps on a spare community lot.

Ecover wasn’t having this though.

Blackberry had a nonsense route fail tantrum when I told her to mount the horse. So much for her wanting to be an equestrian champion.

Come on girl, you can do it…

Finally!

However, whilst things are turning around with Ecover, Nadine just wasn’t working out. She would happily move about the house but she would do absolutely nothing in her queue. I always knew human simbots would be a bit glitchy but she was much more of a hassle than Vikram Populous ever was.

I loved her, but I can’t have a non-useful Daye. I tried to use Master Controller to remove her simbot-ness but that didn’t work, and only resulted in her becoming a Leia-clone full simbot. In the end, I force killed her so the only point she’ll get me is the portrait Puddle is working on.

Still, I brought Nadine into the house for one main purpose, and I wasn’t letting her leave without fulfilling it.

Meet vampire-simbot (but sadly not ghost) hybrid and potential game-killer, Bunnicula Daye…

Join us next time to see what happens to Bunnicula, discover whether Alley or Mona will die before their LTWs fulfil (it’s not looking good) and find out how the whole pets thing goes for us…

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