OK, so no more stuff about boils.I don't know what is wrong with me. I spent most of the night freezing cold and now I'm boiling up.
It is midday and I'm very impatient. Too many things to do and I just want them all done.
Bank holiday this coming Monday, which means the open hell of the Notting Hill Carnival for anyone wishing to participate. I don't wish to be negative, but this, the 2nd biggest carnival in the world, brings back memories only of being jostled, deafened, hemmed in by walls of people (albeit many in exotic dress)... then getting back and so exhausted it's unreal. One year in particular I got extremely ill and had some sort of a breakdown. Yes: from a mere carnival!
PS I just altered my page length to LONG... will anybody please tell me if this gets exceedingly annoying for them..?? THANK YOU.
Gone-out roborovski: I hope this is what Baby Itchy's like at age 90
The second biggest? Really . .and I thought the Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras was up there. Brasil . .yeh the biggest but Notting Hill? I think not baby puppy:
ReplyDelete• Carnaval, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• Carnival, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands
• Carnival of Binche, Binche, Belgium
• Carnival in Cologne, Cologne, Germany
• Carnival of Venice, Venice, Italy
• Fastnacht, Lucerne, Switzerland
• Jamaica Carnival, Jamaica
• Mardi Gras, New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.
• Mardi Gras! Galveston, Galveston Island, Texas, U.S.
• Nice Carnival, Nice, France
• Trinidad Carnival, Port of Spain, Trinidad
• Quebec City Winter Carnival, Quebec, Canada
Hey but who's counting, you can have the Roborovski Ping carnival under your sink!
There's a constant robo-jamboree under there, you're right. Especially as Bashful's lost her shying-away-from-daylight instinct, being blind ~ she appears all hours of day and night, acting most strangely...
ReplyDeleteSounds like a good reason to get lost in a quiet library or curl up with a good book alongside your Robos.
ReplyDelete... yes those two Galahs were doing exactly what you suspected*!*
Enjoy your long weekend *!*
I'm just shocked they didn't fall off!
ReplyDelete+ how do birds manage to do "it"... what with all those feathers in the way..??
The longing I feel to be a part of such an event is always clouded by my fear of crowds. Sigh.
ReplyDeleteHey Gled... how's that NA goin'?
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Well I hope you don't go to the Carnival if it affects you adversely. I don't much like huge crowds either!
ReplyDeleteIn Toronto we have Caribana (which just passed). I live downtown, pretty close to the area of the parade etc. Every year I run for the hills because I just can't take it. The streets are jammed up with (no offense) American tourists. I appreciate the economy that it brings into our fair city, however, don't want to go anywhere near it.
ReplyDeleteI am however, going to Winter Carnival in Quebec City this year, totally different vibe because it's all ice and stuff. Good times with Bonhomme (a snow man is the carnival mascot). C'est tout.
ReplyDeleteI only go to a couple of festibles a year, and they're not too bad. Stay clear if they bother you that much.
ReplyDeleteDid you find your missing robo yet?
Janice~
I'm with you, Gleds. Colourful they may be, but the crowds are diabolical. We have the Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras in Sydney. I just prefer to watch the bytes they put on TV.
ReplyDeleteMiss Understood: I don't so much fear the crowds as detest them... and pavements are so exceedingly narrow and so very many people crowd along the route, at many points you literally could faint and remain standing!
ReplyDeleteWhitenoise: NA?... erm, haven't been for a couple of weeks. It was going OK though, as far as it went...
Monogram Queen: no it really did make me ILL last time I went. Had severe sweats... a kind of nervous breakdown! Seriously!!
Eileen: that Winter Carnival sounds quite something: I'd be well into that...
ReplyDeleteJanice: Hi Janice how are you? I was just thinking about you only today as it goes... missing hammy? That was ages ago! A touch of Bashful blindness aside, all is well in Roborovski-land!
Puss in Boots: that Sydney one sounds like the Berlin Love Parade. I'm not sure whether that one's gay though lots of my old clubbing friends used to say they were going to go then decided not to after seeing it on TV and deciding it was "crap"...!