5:38 SATURDAY A.M. THE ROBBIES ARE UPSET because I removed their maltesers tube to stop them hiding all the time. Spherical has just completed attempted excavations beneath the empty cardboard box they were meant to sleep in but for some reason avoid (they would rather sleep under it. Which as much as anything else just looks ridiculous. Stupid creatures.) At one point the three of them were lined up furiously digging in a row. Which looked so entertaining. Though they don't always scarper the second I delve my hand beside them, they do eye it with grave suspicion. And if Itchy allows the rubbing of his back with one finger which is an action Bashful would never countenance, the other two look on with baleful eyes as if to muse: "Itchy, man, you're a fool not to run like we do... can't you see where this is leading? Those humans, they win your trust. Then they'll have you turned into half a shoulder pad on a fur coat before the month is out ..."
There is a Swedish lady called Eva who is an expert on rodents, who insists no species of hamster is a truly social creature and that all hammies, including all types of dwarves (Lord of the Rings Hamsters) will always eventually fight. My Russian hamsters never fought. And these robos, who clearly do things together on purpose are the most social pets I've ever had. Like a pack of mini rotund doggies who squeak instead of bark.
CELINE DION: I was, of course, merely being provocative yesterday beginning my post with those uncompromising words. How could I ever have associated "Celine Dion" and "adventurousness" in the one sentence? In mitigation let me state it was on special offer. But nowhere near as forgivingly low as the £1 a disc Gnat King Coal cost me. I was attracted by that famous love theme from Titanic which I always thought had a haunting Scottish panpipes thing going on... though it did get played to death... Also Luciano Pavarotti appears pretending to be her 70 year old pasta-munching lover (ukk! Perish the thought!) ... Anyway, on hearing the record through I know now why, despite having seen Celine on television numerous times I had no memory of any of her songs... that is because they're all so forgettable! With one exception: track 3, titled Treat Her Like a Lady a really entertaining dancehall-influenced number in which Ms Dion affects a West Indian accent to a ragga-girls chorus... So much of this record is eminently forgettable. Which just begs the question who bought all those 15 million copies sold?
THE ROBOS ARE SAT UP FURRILY IN BED, nibbling those pink and green hamster-scones in a line. O! Now Bashful and Itchy are having a grooming fight. Spherical is eating a biscuit (no wonder she is spherical). O! Now she's gone in the corner for a poo. Either that or she's staring into space in a Zen-like moment of blank... Come morning they get their Maltesers tube back to hide in. But they are not allowed such diversions at night. Else they get too boring and never come out.
WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME I slept like a fallen tree earlier on... hours and hours and hours. It is very hot today (well, hot for here). I woke up parched... water more water... such raging thurst? Why?? Well I gotta go really it is too late now. All this post relates to Saturday not Sunday. Sunday is merely the technical day of posting as midnight's a near hour past...
righty-ho...
Louis Armstrong: Wonderful World (Live on TV)
Wonderful World Illustrated Video
Videos II (Sunday (there was no post on Sunday))
Thousand Hand Chinese Dance
Showing off to the Girl Next Door (parakeets and budgies) (I think it was screen II I specifically posted up...)
4 hours ago
11 comments:
I'm not sure Celine's current lover is as young as 70!
I like Celine Dion...but I'm well past middle age, so that accounts for it. Nat King Cole...mmm, sometimes, I gotta be in the mood for him. But Louis Armstrong...now you're talking! Actually I've got to find a copy of him singing "When the Saints go Marching in" for mum. She wants it played at her funeral after she pops her clogs. However, she's not sure when that will be...
BTW, I did your Eight Randoms.
just catching up with the daily tales of the Robos ... love your description mini rotund doggies who squeak. Makes me think my little dog just might be a giant Robo *!*
Wayward: I know! Isn't his name RENEE? Or something? I know she really likes him and he paid for her first record to be knocked out
Puss-in-Boots: I'VE GOT WHEN THE SAINTS GO MARCHING IN! It's on my Louis Armstrong "Collection" £1 CD I got from WH Smiths... Have a look at your local record shop, you should be able to find it in the bargain bucket... (my local bargain buckets (actually they're entire shelves with hotchpotched CDs of all artists from all eras randomly strewn around) have some excellent finds from £1 to £5
Bimbimbie: Actually the Robos are most like MEERKATS... in the way e.g. if one starts digging, another comes to investigate and before long you have all three scrabbling in a line looking so entertainingly purposeful... especially for something so tiny and furry and ... just ... round ..!!..
Hi Gleds
I also like Celine Dion and Nat King Cole specially when he sang with his daughter Natalie. "unforgettable" and im also well past middle age,,Take great care
this chinese dance, like Shiva with so many arms is just fascinating, and all the stories you told us today...come on, go on telling stories you do it so well
Thank you dear, very much for that present...
love from mousie
Finally, I got the eight things about me posted.
Ermmmmm....it was Mick and I who bought Celine Dion cds ;O)Loved the Chinese Dance!
Rx
Those birds are sooo funny, they had me chuckling!
Jeanette: I liked that Natalie Cole song Pink Cadillac... do you recall that one? T'was well phunkie!
Mousie: The Chinese Thousand Hand Dance is fascinating isn't it?? It's been in my "random clips" blog for a while... but everything there gets lost it's so confused... I wish there was a more organized way of keeping a blog except just this reverse-chonological tradition... I think it places too many limitations... & I don't want to lose the facility for comments...
Wayward: Cool I will come over in a sec
Ruth: Can you actually remember any of the Celine songs tho? I honestly tried (had it playing round and round and round on repeat) and STILL I can't remember any of the tunes except track 3 "Treat Her Like a Lady" and My Heart Will Go On and the Streisand duet "Tell Him"
Akelamalu: The birds are nutters aren't they... and why don't they just put 'em in all together? Or is it to coax such courting behaviour out of them all the time??, do you think???
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