Happy New Year 2010

I nearly forgot to say this... but have a brilliant one!
(And don't over-celebrate..!)

SUSAN BOYLE: WILD HORSES
SuBo is surely the international talent find of 2009; this is (what I think is) her best track ~



***STOP PRESS***
If you want to see SuBo actually sing the song live, this is from America's Jay Leno show...



HAVE A GREAT 2010!

Damp

UP TO SOME TIME LAST NIGHT, it had been raining constantly for two to three days. Before that, it was frozen, the streets were like ice rinks.
It is still damp damp damp, chilly, and profoundly miserable...
When will this weather fiasco stop?

I don't know whether this is a blue crown conure... but I can't help but wonder how long this bird might LAST in such circumstances...?!?



Ashley the Fuzzy Donkey at the Donkey Sanctuary

Paulie the Parrot

PAULIE

I SAW THIS 1998 film (that I would have assumed was by Disney but actually it was Dreamworks) on BBC1 this morning. So entertaining:

A trotterdonkey green parrot flies all the way to Los Angeles looking for his long lost owner, finds self in a parrot donkey derby along the way, then finally comes home (coooooo!!)

Apparently Paulie is a "blue crowned conure" by the way, technically not a parrot, if you look at the lorikeet-like bill...

Paulie Trailer:



Taco Stall Musical Performance



PS: The proper name for a Parrot is POLLY. "Paulie" is pronounced with a long O ~ quite a different sound. How on earth Dreamworks managed to mix this up is beyond me... It caused me a LOT of difficulty Googling, that's all I say...



And talking of entertainers, here's a hyacinth macaw talking... look at that fearsome beak! They can apparently crack coconuts unassisted!

Boxing Day 2009: Snow Donkies and Cloud Dogs

FURRY FRIDAY ON SATURDAY!
ALL SNOW AND ICE is gone: London looks normal again.

Pictures: Lovely Dalston, North London Line train Hackney (previously called "the free line" due to utter lack of ticket checks), Chelsea mansion blocks. I wanna live in an apartment like that one day...

And here's some...

CLOUD DOGS
Are apparently called Bichon Frises (never knew that before!)
I really want a huge Wolfhound type dog and one of these:




SNOW DONKEYS
A tribute montage to TrotterDonkies in inclement weather everywhere...



GOATS, DONKEYS, HORSES IN FRESH SNOW
A video tribute to Billygoats and Hooved Trotters on snowy farms everywhere...



TITANIC theme music
MY HEART WILL GO ON
... I wasn't too impressed by Celine's vocal yesterday... this is the only Celine song I REALLY like... those Scottish pan pipes... and what a film! All the press it got during shooting made it sound like a flop in the making and didn't it gross $1.6 BILLION..??!? Wow!



... Look at this cute fuzzy donkey burying its nose...



... and... last but not least, a baby cloud dog
(a bichon frise puppy)
how cute!



Hope y'all had a good one... if your Xmas wasn't merry, then I hope at least it was tolerable... Take care and a happy 2010!

RBD

I'M HAVING ROAST BEEF DINNER "for" Xmas ~ even though I don't keep the dastardly waste-of-space day I know everyone else does so I feel left out if I waste the day off my head on heroin, which is my customary way of "celebrating" Christmas.

Today I'm having a literary Christmas, I hope.
I bought those paperback ringbinder things, (dunno what they're officially called) ya know ~ those things students use to bind a project ~ to stop my errant papers blasting all over the place. I'm in continual terror of losing a page...

I hope everybody has a pleasant day out there... "pagan"-mas "Saturnalia"... Roman-Catholicized "Christmas" // or whatever your "bag" happens to be.

And most importantly of all: HERE'S WISHING EVERYONE A SUPERLATIVE 2010 ~ first year of the century we're allowed to say "twenty" at the front without sounding pretentious!!

Cheery-bye everyone!!

LION-TIGER-BEAR
"Naturally" a Bengal tiger, African lion and American black bear would never meet... and yet, thrown together by persons who didn't have their best interests at heart, what a story!
Cuddly friendship... How cute is this. They were rescued as babies from evil drug dealers who wished to keep "high class" exotic pets in the garden... their thoughtful keepers at the zoo to which they were taken were insightful enough NOT to separate the three... and how amazing... have a look:

Here's the report from ITN news:



First Person: Lion-Tiger-Bear Harmony..!



All by Myself ~ Celine Dion
I know she's a bit gawky and geeky but man ~ what a voice! And I love that Scottish-sounding one she did about Kate Winslet throwing the Hope Diamond into the chill depths of the Atlantic after Romeo di Caprio died... how romantic!



Images: lovely roast beef dinner as only the English can pull off (must include cauliflower cheese and Yorkshire puddings and lashings of gravy..!)... I've not written probably 100th of this, but that's what War and Peace would look like in MS form...

Xmas Eve 2009

It rained here in London last night.



The streets are more like ice rinks than ever before. I have to walk on the highway to avoid skating everywhere...
(Isn't New York wonderful..!)



Huge Xmas rush in the shops...



Steady on now, people. Where's this "Christmas Spirit" y'll go on about...?!?



I'm off to get a small fishtank full of methadone as we speak...



Don't the Trotter Donkeys look beautiful in the snow!


A snowy donkey in summertime!



Wishing you all the very best of luck with families, cooking, logistics, wine, celebrations... etc... tomorrow!



Have a cracker of a day!!



Absolute cracker number one Xmas song:
The Pogues + Kirsty McColl
FAIRYTALE OF NEW YORK



LEONA LEWIS BETTER IN TIME JASON NEVINS REMIX
What a voice this girl has! I think this is her best song/mix so far:



HAPPY
This is Leona's latest release. I wonder if the person who wrote the tune was English..? It sounds really English to me...

Brrr III

THERE'S SLUSH EVERYWHERE



Pavements are still slippery.
(This picture may come from New York.... ahem!)



The Trotter Donkies dream of long days in summer meadows...



Hey I thought MY name was Trotter Donkey!



I say, Mummy! Can you hear the chipmunk squeaking at us!?!



Hey we were called Trotter Donkies before you. And we've been in a donkey derby!



Talking of snowy donkies...



... don't freeze yer ass off!



Wah wah waaah!!

OH FATHER ~ a lovely wintry video from Madonna:

Brrr II

LONDON HAD MORE SNOW last night...



Several Eurostar trains running London-Paris broke down in the undersea tunnel, leaving thousands of French passengers stranded in London | not to mention Brits marooned in Paris. Several hundred people had to wait many hours to be rescued from the defunct trains. There is chaos at St Pancras International and Paris Nord and no-one knows quite when they'll get back for Xmas...



It snowed at the donkey sanctuary too.



Hello Big Ears!



Luckily a Siberian horse-rustler gave the Trotter Donkies shelter ...



No more donkey derbies for the time being, then...



Seasonal Greetings to y'all ..!



CLOUD DOGS!
We have a Trotterdonkey doggie like this on our road. One day I want to get one of these, as well as a Gwendolina and a fuzzy donkey...
This vid courtesy Bermudabluez.Blogspot.Com

Brrr!

LONDON IS VERY, VERY COLD

Pavements are like icerinks...
... yes, this picture was taken in London ~ honest! (I'm a dishonest person...)



The outsized ferris wheel is called the London Eye... isn't it majestic?!?



This one really is London ~ wahey!



Merry Xmas to all you pagans out there!
(It IS, after all, a PRE-Christian festival...!)



PS and OH ... a Trotter Donkey in the snow...!



Come here QUICKLY for some snapshots of les vacances parisiennes/etc chez Bimbimbie!!

Donkey Derby!

FURRY FRIDAY ON SATURDAY!

Yes! The sharp-eyed amongst you will notice these pixx are conflated from several derby days of the donkey kind...

DONKEYS ARE SOME OF MY FAVOURITE ANIMALS. AREN'T THEY FURRY AND CUTE!!

Chomping at the bit (hardly!)... the furry donkeys cannot wait to race!



All the Trotter Donkeys in a row...



And off they ping!
(Reluctantly...)



... trotting away...!



Oh no! A wicked witch has cast a spell on the children!



The race took so long, the children who got on the donkeys aged 6 and 7 passed 13 years before the race finished!...



Giddy up now!



The lucky winner!



1. A little more sedate than the Kentucky Derby (this does have moving pictures after a brief photomontage)... or the Grand National (as featured in National Velvet) for that matter... a GENUINE DONKEY DERBY!



2. Aww! Look at all the furry donkeys...



3. Here's a one-girl donkey derby in Sweden or somewhere... What beautiful countryside!

Dishwater

DULL AS... YES, THAT'S ME nowadays, I'm sure...
I MUST APOLOGIZE to y'all for the dishwater ~ for that's surely what I've become as dull as. I can see it. Nothing more to say. I can't sleep. I'm up all night watching television, jotting notes, telling myself it's some sort of novel.
All the time I feel empty inside and don't expect ever to feel better. That's not glass half full thinking ~ it's just the truth.
Now to the weather: it's freezing cold.Sleeting and snowing and gales blowing through the interior of my house, so it's like hobgoblins at the door rattling, shaking, pleading to come in.
The air was so very cold yesterday morn, I could barely breathe. Apparently Paris is so whitened by blizzards it resembles wedding cake.
I don't know what else to say because it's late. Those gremlins at the door are banging, crashing, hammering no end! Better go now ~ enough dishwater for one day.
Who knows? By tomorrow I do believe all will be frozen solid!

Click on my Paris link and you see my Aussie friend Bimbimbie's day in the snow!



Washing up from EconomieSolidaire.Com...Detergent water from ZanyZebra... Paris snowstorm ~ StevenUnsworth.Co.UK ... "2003 Snow in Paris" by Paul Flaggman ... Cyborgers.Wordpress.Com