Gledwood Vol 2 (Main blog)

RIGHT. FOR YOUR ENTERTAINMENT I have posted up a roborovski nibbling on an "ice cream"... I am desperate to find some wild bird se...

I'M OVER THE MOON about my new home on the one hand ; very subdued on the other. I'm going around being awfully polite to people (...

HOW VULGAR! I have traipsed around every likely looking shop on/off/near/not near/etc the high street and FAILED to find any selling fresh ...

RIGHT VINCENT , this is the nearest fusebox I can find to my own ... to the right two mains switches that would turn the entire room off (ea...

I SLEPT FOR HOURS AND HOURS and hours last night and had all sorts of peculiar dreams (about crack dealers etc). Now it's Sunday aftern...

I HAD TO STAY at my old house last night , having had to give up trundling back and forth ~ along two bus rides and with ten minutes further...

IT'S LATE AND I'M UTTERLY EXHAUSTED. But I did manage to get more than 50% moved out. Evilstein's threatening to chuck out my s...

I DON'T KNOW WHAT ON EARTH I'M GOING TO DO tomorrow (dur! later today!..!) to move out. No-one is around really to help me. The new...

A HORRENDOUS BANGING accompanied by insults from Surlystein the Jamaican workman (lots of " rass ") awoke me from an ill-feeling ...

SUNNY HOT, HOT WEATHER has descended: blue skies, entire days a-sparkle, and so on. So of course miseryguts me is feeling depressed (yet aga...

(Photographs: top ~ trio of pink noses. Nearest image I could find to match my three; right ~ Baby Itchy looks a bit like this white little ...

WE ARE CUT FROM THE SAME CLOTH... I have never seen anybody in a film who was so similar to me and the way I might have lived if I had vast...

ANYONE SEEN THAT Martin Scorsese film, The Aviator, starring Leonardo DiCaprio as the "eccentric" pilot-cum-airline boss cum film ...

I AM DYING OF THE SCHNUPFEN, the common cold. Drowning in snot. Hacking coughs. Hamsters are in alarm thinking "what is that awful noi...

HOPEFULLY SPHERICAL & co won't be so keen on escape now: I've got them a new tank. I passed it yesterday in an alleyway ten minu...

SPHERICAL was recaptured at approx. 4am last night, when a scrabbling noise along the side of my bed alerted me to the roborovski's pres...

NEWSFLASH! I CAME BACK AROUND 1pm after a 2-hour abscence to the sight of something (I would ordinarily assume it was a mouse) pinging rapi...

STILL NO SIGN AT ALL OF SPHERICAL! I am getting really worried now as I've heard not a rustle, not a whisper-trace of her presence... I...

> PICTURES: top three; clockwise from top ~ Floella Benjamin marathon runner; Blue Peter (Sarah Greene 2nd from left); Floella Benjamin P...

A TROTTING GREMLINS POST ~ thought yous could all do with a change from my needle-happy misery. Yes! All three Roborovski furballs , having ...