TODAY I WENT ON AN EXTREME MISSION.... my quest began with my phoning all over town ... nobody had them. Shop in Kensington wanted £35 for a pair but they're out of stock till next week... eventually found somewhere right the other side of town that says they sell Robohammies... it took me three bus rides each way... £23 for a bundle of furry entertainment. Man they are so fast! Unstoppable, uncatchable. They do make an entertaining ornament. When they get startled (which means any movement, any noise, anything at all right now, they assume this pyramid formation, each hiding behind another. And probably the same one that voluntarily ran onto my hand, up my arm and dropped onto the floor and scarpered for half an hour being always the one at the front... At the moment they're running the wheel, two in one direction, the other faces the other way and gets spun round and round (it's a wire wheel so he or she can cling on), he is biting at the wire with his nose.... Come to think of it I haven't a clue what sex(es) these critters are or whether they're a mixture. I did notice the one that's tamest towards me keeps climbing on one of the other's backs and that this one looks kind of rounder and more tubby... I wonder why THAT could be! If you want to see what robohammies look like they're on today's youtube screen. But if this is tomorrow click here for a look... film doesn't show up how tiny they are...
This fantastic docu has just been on Radio 4 where a man in a studio randomly calls payphones all over the world and records the resulting dialogues. It was absolutely entrancingly fascinating. If you want to hear it, click here for Radio 4 Listen Again and select Don't Hang Up.
STOP PRESS: when I just tried it Don't Hang Up (which was a repeat) wasn't in Listen Again's Listings... maybe if you try later they'll have got their act together enough to have added it
STOP PRESS 2: try it, click on my listen again link and find "Don't Hang Up" it's right there now. .. well worth a listen if you want something "different" to spew through your computer... you probably can change sites and go bloghopping without losing the soundtrack (usually) though this isn't guaranteed it's happened to me loads of times
These were the videos of the day
Glenn Miller: Moonlight Serenade
"My 3 Robohammies"
Funny ... I have my Mom's Glenn Miller album still. Hearing that music still makes me smile today as it brings back memories! The robohammies are so very cute! Have you named them yet?
ReplyDeleteMy song today was by The Transplant's "Tall Cans In The Air"
ReplyDelete*grabs Gled's grandpa & dances around*
ReplyDeletei LUV retro tunes, u were right abt telling me that u posted such a wonderful tune!
Although its my grandma's tune too, she'd rather dance to Madonna, she likes her!
Will we be hearing the pitter patter of baby hamster feet I wonder? Re your commen on my post...I use Netvibes..though I know there are lots of other sites.
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Kahshe: I went out looking for Glenn Miller today and only found a treble or quadruple CD set... on the cheap but I'm not sure I like the music THAT much to have about 80 tracks of it.... I have not named the hamsters properly I called them Mamma Daddy and Baby as I suspect I know which one got the spherical one pregnant.. Baby is totally wild and uncatchable..
ReplyDeleteIf Spherical is NOT pregnant then she must just like her food a hell of a lot as she seems to weigh half as much again as the other 2
Tom: Tall Cans in the Air? Doesn't ring a bell...
Edyta: Madonna whatever next how old is your grandma tho? Is she one of these superyoung 35 year old grannies?? You do get a lot of them about you know
Ruth: Yes I have a strong suspicion the Spherical one IS pregnant... I cannot come up with any other explanation either that or she has been somehow eating chocolate the other ones could not get their paws on ...
Netvibes... I don't even know how to use that one ...
Hi darling just checking in, love Glenn Miller.
ReplyDeleteGlenn Miller=fantastic
ReplyDeletedoes anyone know, did he ever sing??
or have singers perform with t'band?
Hi Gleds Just popped in see how your going and thank you for my birthday wishes. like those little Hammies there Cute, and I also like Glen Miller.. Take great care .
ReplyDeleteI love old Glenn Miller stuff. It's so romantic! Cute blog.
ReplyDeleteaw, I love that you have some new "friends" gled...but what about your other "hammy"?, where'd he go? Maybe there was a post that I missed somewhere.
ReplyDeleteAlso, where you had "click here" to see their size, there's nothing to click. :)
I think you may've got more than you bargained for and rather than two you'll have a whole bunch of furry friends soon.
Disregard the question about your other furry friend...just read the answer below (got some catching up to do!)
ReplyDeleteglenn miller is an oldie but goodie. those robohammies are really cute. i need to remember checking their actual size out when i get to the pet store.
ReplyDeleteLove Glenn Miller. Keep your eye on those hamsters or you'll be overrun!
ReplyDeleteJeanette: hmmm I am just suspicious/glad that I am/might be about to be deluged by babies as well
ReplyDeleteunless i really did happen to buy a spherical hamster
Jessica: yeah I found a Glenn Miller CD... but it's EIGHTY tracks long I don't know that I could handle THAT much of it....
Debs: yeah the Chinese hamster is alive and well he put his ears up when he heard rampant roborovski scrabblings ... he is fine absolutely no change... so laid back he's about to fall over
Raffi: they are supposed to grow to 5-7cm according to one "authority" and 7-9cm according to "another"... all of which means an average adult body length of 3 inches.. at the moment they come from the nail to the 2nd joint on my index finger... & I have big hands. They are not v big. THEY ARE EXTREMELY FLIGHTY. I've never seen such panicks just because I undo velcro shoe fasteners... etc. Man!
ReplyDeleteAkelamalu: overrun? i am already. if spherical does give birth i am already going through a mental "who would take four baby hamsters list" in my head....
btw where DOES that name Akelamalu come from and what does it MEAN??? I am intrigued!
I met some robohammies at my local pet food store a couple of weeks ago. Of course, I immediately thought of you. What cute little guys they are!
ReplyDeleteSorry I haven't been by to see you lately--my life is too time consuming! Hahahahah! Take care, Gled! I've missed reading you!
Evil Spock is confused.
ReplyDeleteAre they Hamsters retrofitted with robot/cybernetic parts (which technically makes them cyborgs), or are they full on androids wearing the flesh-skins of hamsters that they've killed?
Either way, they're cute!
Love Glenn Miller my favourite is Perfidia..cant get it out of my head now...lol
ReplyDeleteDont want to frighten you Gleds but my hammy had quite a bit more of a litter than 3 or 4 and I had just found homes for them all when that very morning another litter was born..lol thankfully the pet shop took them off my hands,it was just too darn impossible for me to establish the which hammy was what sex...Used to have a ball and a car for them,great fun to watch them scoot across the room enclosed in their vehicles.. Fingers crossed spherical is just spherical and well fed..Keep well and enjoy them they are soooooooo cute.
Ahhh..."Moonlight Serenade"...a wonderful piece of music. My mother played it on the piano frequently. She was a brilliant pianist. I've got a wide taste in music...it covers many genres and many years.
ReplyDeleteOh, they are so pretty, Gleds!
ReplyDeleteThanks for your opinion about "Simpatia por el demonio": Symphaty for the devil,my blog is a "feeling", and I want to share this with the universe. You have a nice blog,so long.
ReplyDeleteGGirl: why don't you buy 'em!! Can't get 'em for love nor money round here. I had to travel FOUR hours to get mine. Cor
ReplyDeleteEvil: they are indeed android rodents with machine gun anuses a la Liz Hurley's breasts in Austin Powers
Audrey: yeah I think Spherical might just be older. And have more of an appetite. But NEWS FLASH. I think the really tiny itchy one is a BOY whereas the other 2 are GIRLS but to be honest I don't have the heart to separate them...
Lee: I like loads of music too and people say "oh I have a wide taste in music too"... a statement they quickly retract when I offer to play BARBRA STREISAND at top blast... taste not wide enough it seems
ReplyDeleteWelshcakes: yeah and loads of pinging babies soon!... maybe (?)
Ridac: puts me in mind of the Roman Catholic Church's paid "devil's advocates" who argue against the sainting of people like Mother Theresa
hmmm
Those hammies are very cute!
ReplyDeleteWould you care to fox-trot with me, Gleds?
foxtrot???
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