MY TROTTEROVSKIS went visiting Mother Hubbs's house yesterday... stashed in the lollypop jar, filled nearly to the brim with woodshavings and multipunctured with airholes on the bottom... They were installed upside-down because the lid is bright red and impenetrable by anything much short of a red hot poker (btw did you know the English King Edward II died in 1327 with one of those up the you-know-where..! True!!)... anyway it was like a living version of one of those glass domes the Victorians so loved to store dead things under... Though most of the time little was to be seen except agitatedly shifting sawdust... then every now and then one tubby trotter would poke her head up; followed by another.... Then her tubby bum would vanish back into the shavings and the other follow directly down... Mother Hubbs is funny. On the one hand she wanted to show my "living ornament" directly to the cat who was most astounded and sneaked round and round it making me feel very nervous (though the tubberovskis were taped in and closely supervised: I know all the kitty-trixx: like waiting till your back's turned (so you can't I even took them to the loo with me) then knocking the whole thing down so it springs open ~ ta-daa! And three-times cat heaven emerges pinging into the shadows... So that made me just slightly on edge though I knew they were perfectly safe. Then she started fretting about whether or not they had enough air. Of course they did!
But we ended up rather farcically blowing in air through a drinking straw... Which if anything, I'd imagine would only INCREASE the carbon dioxide levels... though I'm no expert. It did seem rather over the top but Mother Hubbs has an obsessive nature like me and once she's got a bee in her bonnet she cannot stop buzzing...
In fact, before long all three simply fell asleep right in the middle of the diggery (a real burrow for once! What hamster luxury!!)... though only TWO ever emerged. In paranoia I tore the thing opened, only for a bleary-eyed Spherical to emerge from the very bottom, where she had slumbered in seclusion for two hours flat (and probably been nibbling on the red binkybonk things: moulded uppydowny recesses for the shopkeeper to stand lollies upright atop the closed jar as a sales display... THAT is what most probably attracted her down (I know the hamster brain!)... also the relative peace and quiet. She's an old momma, is Spherical. Doesn't like needless excitement of any kind. Meanwhile the other two were going mental digging up then down, then together in a chain. Then popping up sawdust-covered heads and looking surprised to have got nowhere!
We had a yummy Sunday lunch and smoked lots of real cigarettes (not nasty rollups like I normally do. Mother Hubbard is very posh (well, compared to me; as are most people haha!))... then Bashful and Itchy persisted in scrabbling against the top of their dome as if they were bored and had had enough so I took them home. Not before causing a spectacle amongst some young children on the bus... so that was MY Sunday... and how was yours..??
BLOGS OF THE DAY:
Tubby chocolate mice...
Amazingly fluorescent coloured smoke...
Beautiful hotair baloons...
Rainbowtastic paintings from Spain...
ps
Ever heard of a natural phenomenon called a "fire rainbow"?
Click to see it: they DO exist and that's a fantastic specimen!!
30 comments:
My Sunday was fine and dandy, glad you had a good one and Happy St. Pat's Day today!
Cheers! St Patrick let me tell you is causing much more of a stir in the USA, Canada and (most especially: AUSTRALIA where any excuse to knock back the liquor almost as much as in Ireland...) as I just said in someone else's comments were I not online today and visiting those 3 abovementioned lands... I'd not have a CLUE about it but thanks for the wishes!!
I had a very nice day at home after Palm Sunday at church. What did you have for lunch?
As Dolly Parton sang: "We have chicken every Sunday and the preacher comes around and every Saturday morning Daddy takes us into town; and we go to the pictures..."
except I've not set eyes on a preacher ('cept the one at a foodpoisoning barbecue (literally beefburgers chewy and FROZEN in the middle!!) and I've not been to the cinema for many a year...) thanxx for asking tho hahahaaargh!! ;->...
Sounds like you had a really nice Sunday Gleds. We had lunch at home (a roast) and a visit from youngest son and two grandchildren which was fun. :)
Great stuff: but you didn't have a constantly trottering Victorian dead animals in a dome except alive ornament now did you... hey!
Hillarious visuals of you blowing air through a straw to the robos ... if you were having/had a Sunday pint perhaps you air drunked them into deep slumber lol *!*
Spent my Sunday with paintbrush in hand and my ear to the radio - ABC national for me ... we call 4BC whinge radio.
You had a most excellent Sunday Adventure Gledwood! I was too kissed by the sun spending a few hours with waders on a reef in sea air. Also saw hawks flying with wind gliding humans! Followed by Sunday afternoon BBQ :)
PS: It's TUESDAY here now!
Glad to hear you and the Robos had a wonderful Sunday get together with Mother Hubbs.
You sure do get around the blogs Gledwood. Don't know how you manage to keep up and post at the same time.
My Sunday was boring and slow. Just the way I like it.
Great post, great blog. Enjoyed browsing your blog.
^.^ hehe
great Sunday then :)
My Sunday was cleaning day...did alot of work ard the house.
Keshi.
Glad you had a lovely day. I have spent the day in with the kiddies as I have been sick. But, we still managed to do up St Pat's right. :)
Happy St. Patrick's day!
glad you had a good sunday gled, it sounds most entertaining.
:o)
i did quite a bit of housework cleaning tidying even kettle-polishing.....
:o/
liver and bacon for tea. yum.
I thank and I repay its visit.
It comes back soon.
One I hug
Lettuce: polishing the kettle..?!? that is most surely an early sign of madness!
having said that I used to polish the taps: having heard that Madonna obsessively did the same; I thought that by copying her habits a bit of her success might rub off (like Jif, perhaps)... on me! hahaargh!! ;->...
Bimbimbie: 4BC I will have to give another go... is there an on-air agony aunt or something more entertaining than potash gardening tips? I found that really dull. Even for 9am Sunday morning (your time...)
Anon: Tuesday? Hang on when did you post that..? Oh yeah I see it would have been about 10 to 9am (10 to 10pm here)... I still find that hopelessly exotic and wowsome! Yes my trotters had a tubsome day out (quite literally as they were sealed in a tub for 4 hrs+ poor swines!)
X: what on earth is your name..? Anything to do with that female named something like Xuxa who I heard earns $$$multi1000000s from South American TV? You're welcome for the visit I'm glad I came: guess how I found you? By your photos popping up quite at random on http://play.blogger.com... it's like blog tv!
ps: so you work in public relations/media relations ("PR") then..?
Molson: Did you buy weighty Sunday papers and lie in bed all morning reading colour supplements about pierced drumming tribes in Mali/etc then...?
Jane: cheers, dears! I shall have to go back to yours...
Keshi: you sound good. better than you did last post yourside. which is good. ;->...
Mom: shyte! I hope your kiddies all get well promptly!
(hey did you know a traditional British ruse against car sickness is to place newspaper under the child as they sit in the back; and to inform them that newspaper "stops you being sick"... (like hell it does!!) there was an hilarious phone-in about 1970s childhoods and the horrors of carsickness... I think cars must be incredibly better designed these days as you don't hear about it anything like so much... your family must need a TANK to drive ensemble anywhere...
Janice: cheers Janice, though it passed me by with only a single mention on BBC London radio at about 10:30pm! o yeah & I did see 3 AUSTRALIAN boys drunk and sporting giant green furry "Irish" hats... around 9:30pm...
VdD: cheers!... who is that portrait btw?
Lettuce: please see above!
Jane: har har har whose on earth was THAT flashing "you're a twonk" page then?
u DID have fun, u!
i didnt find even a clue of a festive sunday over here. all sunday i did nothing. was being useless. ewwww.
at least i slept well. thats good.
hope ur doing well.
i think the "festive" st paddy's was monday. not 100percent sure as did not celebrate. glad you slept good that is important
hey why you not keeping blog? c'MON! different city; same blog. it's quite possible and logical! c'mon woman! we wanna hear more!!
Dolly is funny. Sensible is new to me, quite enjoyable. Madonna is still Madonna, but hey, she's from Detroit too so that's cool. Cheers!
Isn't Detroit famous for its auto industry..?
Someone once said that Madonna is like a General Motors car... y'know, cause everybody's had a ride on it...
Hi Gleds ~~ Thanks for your comments, I am not into Sy Pat's day and certainly not into Guinness. Don't even like green except in lawns and gardens. Glad you had a visit with Mother Hubbard, in spite of the cats waiting yo pounce on your little mates. The reason the time is an hour out is Victoria and Sydney are on Daylight Savings time, due to end soon. Queensland don't have it and are an hour behind us.
Take care, my friend, Best Wishes, Merle.
Hi again Gleds ~~ There are quite a few blackbirds live around my house and they nest every year about 6 frrt from my back door. I love their whistle or song, it's great and they are my favourite. We get
Willy Wagtails and the odd kookaburra and
they laugh, but usually sit in the high trees at the back of my place. Bye again
Cheers, Merle.
O, I see about the time now... that's what we call British Summer Time here; though I've always wondered why we need an extra hour in summer not in winter when it would surely be more practical..?
Kookaburras I have heard of but I couldn't point one out ...
We have birds called pied wagtails; they are black and white and so resemble tiny magpies in a way... they tend to run along the ground rather than flying, which looks really funny, very tiny pretty birds and more black and white patterned than magpies which is I spose why they're called "pied" as they do look spattered in cream or something
I don't read real newspapers anymore now that I have this interweb thingy. Instead I spent my Sunday cruising the web for new music.
Yeah Gledwood, Detroit is known for the American auto business. It's also known for the demise of the American auto business, unemployment, and urban decay. Maybe Detroit can come up with a new slogan...
"Detroit. Just like New Orleans without the hurricane."
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