arguably Australia's cutest marsupial...
they love to be held...
...and stroked...
"wombat in a hat"
... and the babies are very cute too
WISHING Y'ALL A VERY FURRY WEEKEND INDEED!
5 hours ago
Attack of the Furry Entertainers!
Showing posts with label weekend. Show all posts
Showing posts with label weekend. Show all posts
Saturday, November 26, 2011
Wombats
arguably Australia's cutest marsupial...
they love to be held...
...and stroked...
"wombat in a hat"
... and the babies are very cute too
WISHING Y'ALL A VERY FURRY WEEKEND INDEED!
Saturday, November 12, 2011
Macaws
Ordinary blue and yellow macaws...
With green severe macaws
Hyacinth macaws, the largest parrots in the world...
Wishing a raucous weekend to you all..!
Friday, November 11, 2011
Hello again
I HAVEN'T BEEN BY because I could not get access to a computer. I have not been feeling well. My methadone is down to 80mg and I feel sick whenever I have to move myself 
to get to that overheated chemist's shop. Strangely, apart from feeling cold, I feel fine at home. As I say, it's only when I start moving myself that I get a disgusting sweat on that only evaporates a good couple of hours after sipping the noxious gunk I am prescribed. I feel my life is over now I'm no longer taking drugs. OK I do indulge about once a fortnight but I never feel the gear. I've had the odd bit of crack but I don't even like that. So I'm stuck in sobriety and hating it because I'm so unmotivated and down.
I got a letter through because they are turning off the old analogue TV signal in London next April and I'm eligable for a Freesat dish and box, fully installed for just £67 ~ about $100 ~ giving me over 100 channels without any need to subscribe. So I'm thinking of going for it.
Apart from that no news. Just missed doctor's appointments (I felt to ill to go). And poor sleep. Up all night, in bed all day not wanting to get up. Then the dreaded trek to the methadone chemist and having to remove half my clothes in that ridiculously tropical shop. I stink because I have not had a shower in over a week, just half hearted attempts at washing over the sink. I don't want to be dirty but I just feel like a block of ice when I wake up. I need my methadone AT HOME so I can take it IN BED a good couple of hours before I get up. THEN I will be able to stomach showers, changing clothes, washing hair all the things normal people do. All the things addicts on methadone supposedly start doing again but cannot when the methadone is not in their hands. The longer this poisoning goes on the worse things will get. I just want off that noxious rubbish as quickly as possible. There is no earthly reason why I should experience any withdrawal whatsoever. If I reduced a dose of heroin by 5mg per week I wouldn't feel anything at all. So why should I feel the reduction in methadone? I'm fine once I've drunk it and waited the infernal amount of time that rubbish takes to come on (over two hours). But I'm not OK when I wake up in the morning. Unless the clinic give me control over drinking my own dose at home I'm launching a formal complaint and/or simply scoring my own methadone on the street so I can walk to the chemist without hot and cold flashes and flushing half the dose they give me. They probably wouldn't notice if I did that. I don't want to play around with my dosing but I'm getting more and more wound up on this point. I got advised to issue a formal complaint some weeks ago. Everyone else I know gets good treatment apart from me. It's almost as if they were deliberately eroding my mental health. Example: by insisting I go to group therapy which is only compulsory for convicted petty criminals. I went to two groups very reluctantly just so I could say I'd tried it. Then very happily turned my back on that complete waste of time. 90 minutes of patronizing rubbish I have heard a million times before. No thanks.
I'm not in the mood for NA because I don't go anywhere these days. I feel very run down and mentally exhausted. My mother did not seem to like the letter I wrote her explaining my past. She doesn't want to face my point of view. But she did tell some very interesting stories of her own which I'm sure she considers true. Viewpoint, viewpoint. It's all in the viewpoint.
Well I have to dash I'm on a public computer yet again. I will be back sooner if I can get to a computer that actually works, which many in this shop don't. Take care everyone and have a charming weekend...
to get to that overheated chemist's shop. Strangely, apart from feeling cold, I feel fine at home. As I say, it's only when I start moving myself that I get a disgusting sweat on that only evaporates a good couple of hours after sipping the noxious gunk I am prescribed. I feel my life is over now I'm no longer taking drugs. OK I do indulge about once a fortnight but I never feel the gear. I've had the odd bit of crack but I don't even like that. So I'm stuck in sobriety and hating it because I'm so unmotivated and down.I got a letter through because they are turning off the old analogue TV signal in London next April and I'm eligable for a Freesat dish and box, fully installed for just £67 ~ about $100 ~ giving me over 100 channels without any need to subscribe. So I'm thinking of going for it.
Apart from that no news. Just missed doctor's appointments (I felt to ill to go). And poor sleep. Up all night, in bed all day not wanting to get up. Then the dreaded trek to the methadone chemist and having to remove half my clothes in that ridiculously tropical shop. I stink because I have not had a shower in over a week, just half hearted attempts at washing over the sink. I don't want to be dirty but I just feel like a block of ice when I wake up. I need my methadone AT HOME so I can take it IN BED a good couple of hours before I get up. THEN I will be able to stomach showers, changing clothes, washing hair all the things normal people do. All the things addicts on methadone supposedly start doing again but cannot when the methadone is not in their hands. The longer this poisoning goes on the worse things will get. I just want off that noxious rubbish as quickly as possible. There is no earthly reason why I should experience any withdrawal whatsoever. If I reduced a dose of heroin by 5mg per week I wouldn't feel anything at all. So why should I feel the reduction in methadone? I'm fine once I've drunk it and waited the infernal amount of time that rubbish takes to come on (over two hours). But I'm not OK when I wake up in the morning. Unless the clinic give me control over drinking my own dose at home I'm launching a formal complaint and/or simply scoring my own methadone on the street so I can walk to the chemist without hot and cold flashes and flushing half the dose they give me. They probably wouldn't notice if I did that. I don't want to play around with my dosing but I'm getting more and more wound up on this point. I got advised to issue a formal complaint some weeks ago. Everyone else I know gets good treatment apart from me. It's almost as if they were deliberately eroding my mental health. Example: by insisting I go to group therapy which is only compulsory for convicted petty criminals. I went to two groups very reluctantly just so I could say I'd tried it. Then very happily turned my back on that complete waste of time. 90 minutes of patronizing rubbish I have heard a million times before. No thanks.
I'm not in the mood for NA because I don't go anywhere these days. I feel very run down and mentally exhausted. My mother did not seem to like the letter I wrote her explaining my past. She doesn't want to face my point of view. But she did tell some very interesting stories of her own which I'm sure she considers true. Viewpoint, viewpoint. It's all in the viewpoint.
Well I have to dash I'm on a public computer yet again. I will be back sooner if I can get to a computer that actually works, which many in this shop don't. Take care everyone and have a charming weekend...
Saturday, October 22, 2011
Hummingbirds
Psychedelic
Colourful ...
... and cute
With precision beaks that suck nectar from flowers...
... they fly amazingly; but look just as good perching.
WISHING Y'ALL A CHIRPY WEEKEND!
Saturday, August 27, 2011
QUETIAPINE, aka Seroquel, the antipsychotic I said I'd rather be on than risperidone, has mysteriously found its way en masse into boxes of Neurofen (ibuprofen) headache pills!
Sky News says:
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has issued a safety warning following reports that some boxes may contain Seroquel XL 50mg.
Seroquel XL is a prescription-only anti-psychotic drug used to treat disorders including schizophrenia, mania and bipolar depression.
The mix-up is believed to have happened at a wholesaler's and so far three cases have been identified in the south London area.
See! Ordinary people recoil in horror at the prospect of taking even 2x50mg quetiapine into their bodies. I would probably be dosed at 300-350mg at night. My friend who also has schizoaffective gets 700mg at night. That's 14 of those stray pills!
*******
I slept nearly all day today, woke up with a taste for Chinese food only to find my best local takeaway SHUT at only 10 past 10. This is the one who put mangetout in the mixed vegetable fried rice. The second choice
takeaway tip in Iceland's own frozen mixed vegetables: cubed carrots; peas; sweetcorn. Nah! I could do with a chicken and baby corn with curry sauce. Plus egg fried rice. Hey that's making me hungry again...
I was watching Ugly Betty on DVD. Lots of people say they don't like that show. Presumably because it pokes fun at Betty. What they don't realize is you watch it the other way round. Betty is loyal, resourceful, very intelligent and a good person. Despite great opposition she makes her way in a world that mocks and derides her. THAT is why I watch Ugly Betty.
The bit where she skulks into the canteen with everybody smirking at her, is just like entering McDonalds during a paranoid episode. Everybody seemed to be talking to, at or about ME. So I had to ignore everyone and only interact with the girl behind the till, who was gazing at me with a most peculiar look in her eye...
Anyway it's not like that today. I was just saying. Today I am fine. Today all is good.
I can't get my little computer open. I tried and tried unscrewing the back where some cable is at fault, yet cannot do it.
So it's gonna have to go into hospital.
Hey maybe I should have chicken and babycorn in curry sauce with egg fried rice in compensation...
I hope you all are having a splendiferous weekend...
Sky News says:
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has issued a safety warning following reports that some boxes may contain Seroquel XL 50mg.
Seroquel XL is a prescription-only anti-psychotic drug used to treat disorders including schizophrenia, mania and bipolar depression.
The mix-up is believed to have happened at a wholesaler's and so far three cases have been identified in the south London area.
See! Ordinary people recoil in horror at the prospect of taking even 2x50mg quetiapine into their bodies. I would probably be dosed at 300-350mg at night. My friend who also has schizoaffective gets 700mg at night. That's 14 of those stray pills!
I slept nearly all day today, woke up with a taste for Chinese food only to find my best local takeaway SHUT at only 10 past 10. This is the one who put mangetout in the mixed vegetable fried rice. The second choice
takeaway tip in Iceland's own frozen mixed vegetables: cubed carrots; peas; sweetcorn. Nah! I could do with a chicken and baby corn with curry sauce. Plus egg fried rice. Hey that's making me hungry again...
I was watching Ugly Betty on DVD. Lots of people say they don't like that show. Presumably because it pokes fun at Betty. What they don't realize is you watch it the other way round. Betty is loyal, resourceful, very intelligent and a good person. Despite great opposition she makes her way in a world that mocks and derides her. THAT is why I watch Ugly Betty.
The bit where she skulks into the canteen with everybody smirking at her, is just like entering McDonalds during a paranoid episode. Everybody seemed to be talking to, at or about ME. So I had to ignore everyone and only interact with the girl behind the till, who was gazing at me with a most peculiar look in her eye...
Anyway it's not like that today. I was just saying. Today I am fine. Today all is good.
I can't get my little computer open. I tried and tried unscrewing the back where some cable is at fault, yet cannot do it.
So it's gonna have to go into hospital.
Hey maybe I should have chicken and babycorn in curry sauce with egg fried rice in compensation...
I hope you all are having a splendiferous weekend...
Saturday, August 20, 2011
Loaches
LOACHES were always my favourite fishes in the community tank; more for personality than looks.
This is a sucker loach. The cleaner of the deep. Like most loaches they live on algae, come out at night and are highly territorial, lurking moodily in any cave you care to construct out of slate or bogwood and thoroughly enjoying being out of view! If anything or anyone dares disturb them they can shift themselves with truly astonishing rapidity.
I used to have a Borneo sucker or hillstream loach. This fish lives in ultra shallow water and likes a stream of air against the glass. They're agile enough to be able to swim directly down the flow of bubbles, which replicates the splashing mountain streams they inhabit in real life. Nubia, our Borneo, used to sleep upside down on a piece of slate. Whenever I wanted a good look at her, I'd just pick up the slate and she'd stay stubbornly anchored.
Unlike ordinary loaches, which hold on to rocks or the glass with their mouths, the Borneo has a sucker almost the entire length of its body. Meaning that it can withstand extremely strong currents in the wild.
Easily the fastest swimmers in the community fish tank; it once took the fuming pet shop lady a full 20 minutes to catch the last hillstream loach between two nets!
My favourite loach of all is the reclusive kuhli. This strikingly stripey eel-like creature is only 4"/10cm long in adulthood. Rarely to be seen during daylight hours, they burrow under the gravel, only to emerge by the pale light of the moon (or your moon-effect nightlight).
The kuhli loach's expression reminds me of a certain member of my family who I once, at the tender age of 12, likened to "an old hornet" in an official document!
Kuhli loaches don't live long. They are very sensitive to water quality and only survive in well-tended, established tanks. My two both died... yet the Old Hornet lives on!
WISHING A FANTASTICAL WEEKEND TO ALL THE FAMILY!
Saturday, August 13, 2011
Tiny Tits
Bluetits are the most beautiful garden birds in Britain...
and are known as far away as China
where the agile fluttering featheries are called the
"the blue mountain bird"
Wishing y'all a very
CHIRPY WEEKEND!
Saturday, August 06, 2011
Roborovski Entertainment Circus
TINY HANDTAME ROBOROVSKI HAMSTERS
Here is Butter the white faced roborovski hammy. Look how tiny the (fully grown) hamster is compared to the hand:~
This one's called Lily, very cute, more of a struggler. Look how quick she pings on the wheel:
ROBO DUST BATH
Open secret: hamsters love taking dust baths:
ROBO SWIMMING
no they don't look like they're "enjoying it" but they do look cute and very tiny nonetheless...
WISHING Y'ALL A VERY FURRY WEEKEND INDEED...
Sunday, July 31, 2011
Hot
THE WEATHER is getting hotter this end. It's over 25C. That's hot for London. Strangely I'm not sweating like a swine these days. Maybe NOT taking heroin has something to do with that little difference. I always knew heroin was doing me no good; it was just hard to put a finger on what wrong it actually did (possibly because it did everything "wrong")... I feel a lot better now I'm on those pills I was prescribed months ago and did take in the beginning then somehow got out of the habit of taking... I don't know. Even though they're not antidepressants they do make me less depressed and though they're not mood stabilizers they do stop my mood lunging and plunging.
When I found out risperidone is used as an antidepressant, I wasn't quite so squeamish about taking it. Maybe there is, after all, such a thing as placebo effect.Now I'm lurking down the library hoping to bump into someone who will lend me the price of a drink. Broke till tomorrow. Ukh. Then I'm meant to be meeting one of my creditors at 9am. No rest for the wicked you see.
Ukh I've got to go. It's too quiet in here. I hate Sundays...
Saturday, July 30, 2011
African Pygymy Mice
THESE are the smallest mice in the world: look how one is too tiny even to make the wheel spin [at first]...
As long as a roborovski hamster, but oh so much thinner:~~~~~~~
KEITH FLOYD on the docks in Hong Kong. "Mealy-mouthed water taxi owners are asking $100 each to film here where any person can walk freely..." he says and lets them reprimand away in Chinese in the background...
Saturday, July 23, 2011
A Furry Day
THUMB-SIZED ENTERTAINERS
look at that deep ruffly fur:
the tiny hammies do everything together:
WISHING Y'ALL A FURRY WEEKEND!
THESE ARE 3 NATURE VIDEOS WITH MUSIC
... transcendent, inspirational ...
I was actually looking for the music, but you might prefer the vids........
UNION JACK: RED HERRING
(total coincidence) this was posted up by Trisch Li, manic lady, as featured in my sidebar...! (why do our paths cross so often Trisch? and you died before I ever could meet you)
ATLANTIC OCEAN: WATERFALL
and here are 2 more vids by Orbital
HALCYON ON AND ON
this one shows the whole world... and elephants' feet...
BELFAST
not a nature vid at all i'm afraid...
and last but not least here's a video accompanying
PAUL VAN DYK MIX of HUMATE: LOVE SIMULATION, as posted the other day. an alltime classic.....
Saturday, July 16, 2011
Meerkats
PS Don't miss my miseryguts post from earlier today...
Saturday, July 09, 2011
Shetland Donkies
... little trotter donkies ...
FURRY FRIDAY ON SATURDAY
... officially known as Shetland Ponies ...
... these are the tiniest trotters in the United Kingdom ...
... noted for their distinctive manes ...
... these little trotters are tiny enough to become household pets ...
... in times of old Shetlands worked as pit-ponies, dragging multi-tonne weights, so a grown man is no problem ...
... usually, however, they prefer lighter loads ...
WISHING Y'ALL A CHEERFUL TROTTER WEEKEND
... AND DON'T FORGET TO VIEW TODAY'S OTHER TWO POSTS; BETTY FORD AND WATCH THE BIRDIE ...
★★★★★★★★★★★★
more singing by the greatest voice in the world
Friday, July 01, 2011
Fuzzy Donkies in the Snow
IT'S REALLY HOT THIS END...
... so to cool y'all off, here's some fuzzy donkies in the snow...
WISHING Y'ALL A CHEERY WEEKEND
IF IT CANNOT BE CHEERY ...
THEN MAY IT BE TOLERABLE!
Saturday, June 11, 2011
Hello Hammy Hamster!
TALES OF THE RIVERBANK: FIRST PAST THE POST
This is the very last Tales of the Riverbank I can get, so I hope y'all like it...
HAMMY HAMSTER GOES ORGANIC
HAMMY HAMSTER GOES ORGANIC: OUTTAKES
wishing y'all
a very furry
weekend
indeed!
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Bugerlugs, here are some proposed Hammynames. Not sure about Samantha and Mary, but I think any the other ones would suit any furry pinger down to the ground:~~~~~~~
Chrystobel, Samantha, Mary, Poppy
Morph, Diamorph, Bea, Indica, Sativa, Ephedra, Coca, Meow
Manic, Schizz, Munchausen, Delirium
Perkins, Durry, Trotter, Scrabbler, Jugstable, Ping, Scuttle, Scratcher, Earwasher, Tonkie, Swine
Saturday, May 28, 2011
HARES!
Hares are much larger than rabbits.
Longer limbs give them a far faster "bound".
And unlike rabbits they have never been domesticated...
Not even the really cute Arctic Hare!European Hares.
Arctic Hares.
PS: I've found a rehab where you're even allowed pinging hamsters in a tank!
Saturday, May 21, 2011
White Tigers
FURRY FRIDAY ON SATURDAY
White tigers aren't albinos; they're a naturally occurring variation from the ordinary orange and black coloration....
White tigers are usually slightly bigger than orange tigers
They're very well camouflaged against one another
Aren't the cubs cute..?This tiger isn't white, but it looks very entertaining playing with a bear
WISHING Y'ALL A FURRY WEEKEND!!
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