We moved abroad when I was five, and the budgie went to the vet to be looked after whilst we were gone. It was only about ten years later that I realised Diggle hadn't actually lived out his final few months/years in luxury at the vet's house.
A childhood belief about family

others believed things like this
- when i was younger i thought that when you moved house your house moved with you!!— chrissy
- I used to believe that when you moved house you swapped house with the person moving into your old house.Anon
- Olivia Newton John did sing let me hear your budgie talk! didn't she— J Scull
- when i was young i believed that when u moved house the house would come with you !!!
just like a turtleAnon - I used to thing that vikings lived 50 years ago.— Sigrid
- I used to think when we moved, it was because we were exchanging our house with the buyer's... — Pat