HAVE A CHARMING, FURRY SUNDAY EVERYONE.... that's fur as in little furry animals not as in rotten old mould... the picture to the left shows a pet pika (sitting on the same green spiral "staircase" of the same Habitrail cage my Chinese hammy Pingpong has... it will quickly outgrow that!)... And to the right a wild pika having a squeak outside its rocky abode...... and top: a tiny roborovski so you can see why I coo into Itchy's ear "you look just like a pika!" among the reams of other rubbish I spout at her. (Well she does look a bit like one!)
Today I caught her trotting on the wheel and picked it up. She clambered about my hand trying not to look disappointed, upset and impatient to just scuttle off and be left alone. I shoved her into the seedery (the "teabox") and within a second her furry face appeared next to the Weetabix. Out she popped and I shoved her back in. There she was again looking all furry by the breakfast cereals. Then Bashful appeared looking all tubby and harvesty (they actually smell of harvest-time too)... she chased my fingers about, seizing her moment to bite when Itchy went pinging across the newspaper so Bashful panicked too and their tubby bums were struggling against the corner entrance to their "secret burrow"... where they ping away in peace...
OK I must admit I posted the above paragraph yesterday, before I spent nearly all day wallowing in bed in a pit of despondency. Then when I did emerge outside the thought hit me powerfully: I've been here too long. Time to move on...
(Give it another five years and perhaps I'll get round to it...)
I wished my Mum happy Mother's Day... she said she has an allergy and is covered in blisters... who does THAT sound like..?
My time now is up; so:~
See yous all tomorrow...
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PS a personal message/plea to MALLORY
Many thanks for your comment.
I'm pretty sure I managed to reply ONCE at yours but now I'm having great troubles leaving any message at yours...
So I'm having to say HI here... please tell how/where or leave the link for how I DO communicate with you chez toi... your blog is quite something!
Blog pixx of the day:
Guildwood Gardens
Fantastic Alpine-Fresh Airiness...
Goodness; I had to look up the fact that Mother's Day in Britain occurs during Lent. Not so here.
ReplyDeleteHave a bracing Monday!
We celebrate Mother's Day in May here.
ReplyDeleteMy son breaks out in a whole body rash if he has anything with almonds.
Blisters,
could be so many things... contact dermatitis, eczema, staph, drug allergy, shingles, etc.
Hope she's well soon.
your pets are really cute..:)
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Those hamsters are adorable.
ReplyDeleteHi Gleds...those little critters of yours are so cute, but what are those others?
ReplyDeleteHope the blues have left and things are brighter for you today.
Take care.
Thanks for scaring us about forgetting Mother's Day!!! LOL!
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ReplyDeleteTut-Tut: No! British Mother's Day comes about 6 weeks in advance of Mother's Day nearly everywhere else!!
Crystal: ALMONDS? I shall have to remember that. My Mum said she's practically had to stop eating in order to discover WHAT might be wrong. I shall have to tell her the best way I know of isolating intolerances is to put the stuff under a labelled plaster, scratch the skin with a pin and where it blows up massively red big time THAT is your allergy/intolerance...
.....(dots)....: don't you have a proper name? ooo! yeah they're lovely and harvesty and smell really beautiful too, like I said. I love my robbies
ReplyDeleteLittle Lamb: oh they're lovely. VERY wriggly when I pick up Spherical (she hates it but I've learned how to hold her firmly without squeezing and she cannot writhe out of my grip!)... yeah Roborovskis. You oughtta get some! They're the most gorgeous small rodents you can get. But not the tamest and not suitable for small kids.
Puss-in-Boots: the other ones are "pikas"... they live in the mountains and rocks especially in America. I first came across them from Molson's hiking blog (look under blogs USA in my links) there are loads of them there. Though they look like hamsters they're rabbit-sized. As I said that first cage the tiny baby pika was in is FAR too small. An adult would barely fit in the cage at all... Roborovskis come from Outer Mongolia where you also get pikas. The robos, apparently, live AMONG the pikas sharing their burrows... but a robbie is TINY compared to a pika (who picks poisonous flowers, lets them dry out when they lose their toxicity and feasts on these all winter) and robbies hoard VAST amounts of seeds and grain for themselves. The pikas would not be able to get at this without severely excavating as the robbies are so tiny and so would stash the seeds well behind the inconvenient rocks...
Nicole: sorry darling no the British Mother's Day is about six weeks ahead of Mother's Day everywhere else (as I said above)... but I was heartily confused last year to read about 2000 random blogs on a hop all about American/Australian/other Mother's Day when ours had been and gone... most confusing... it's a bit like "ground floor; first floor" in America that would be "first floor; second floor"...
Hello greetings from Guildwood Canada..than kyou very much for messages on my blog.
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I live east of Toronto, Canada ..
The snow pictures are from Grey Abbey Park. The park is located only five minutes from our house and overlooks Lake Ontario.
Nordic Walking is an excellent sport for your whole body. Try it and you'll never walk without your poles.
They are so cute!
ReplyDeleteHope your Mum has been to see a doctor - it could be any number of things.
I don't think your surroundings contribute anything to your wellbeing Gleds. :(
English Mother's Day is different than American Mother's Day!
ReplyDeleteGeez, you had me shittin' bricks there for a minute. I thought I forgot.
I have been searching for an email link but there is not one so...I'll ask it here. I want to promote your excellent read, insblog on my page. I am going to give my honest opinions about it, as I see it. It will go something like this,
ReplyDelete"ight into a world that few are writing about, feels as though it is written during another time and place, like during the blitz, dictated from a bomb beaten building, yet the topics are of a more immediate nature, hamsters, the colorful junkie down the hall, the latest score...and l i t u a t u r e. Really bad graphics that only add to this timeless feel, and a dizzyingly cluttered page"
This is how I will do it if I do it. If you approve or don't approve, just let me know by commenting on an old post, that most would never read.That way I don't have to publish my private email address here.
Thanks.
Guild: Guildwood to Gledwood ~::~ excellent stuff!!
ReplyDeleteAkelamalu: my surroundings are dogshit. My Mum's had all manner of tests at least SHE takes care of herself (unlike Mother Hubbs... and... who? else? can? you? think? of? who? doesn't..??~?..??
ZenWizz: only different in date, surely? I know the entire rest of the English-speaking world seems to keep it about 6 weeks later, that really did my head in last year
MFiler: o no that is brilliant. Hey I only got this message today which is Monday 10 March 2008 hey hang on I have to get in touch with you now or you'll think I'm avoiding you