痒いハムスターの赤ちゃんを捕まえてきた！
I'VE CAUGHT THE LITTLE SWINE!
Baby Itchy Roborovski is in protective custody and has been severely told off.
She rambles about noncholantly as if nothing happened...
... all the possible eventualities I had to eventually sit down and consider right through. Thankfully the old pipes hole under the sink has been stopped up by my landlord's workmen in an antimouse move. So I relaxed a bit about her having left the room. The door is a flush-fitting full-on firedoor so no way could she have squeezed under there. The only remaining possibility (considering I had only caught site of her once, about an hour after she first went missing last night) was that she had got down somewhere she could not get back up. Somewhere in my room. There are books piled up besides the cupboard that's crawling alive with wild mice and that's where she was. Cavorting with wild mice if you please! Soon as I pulled the books out I spotted something and saw Itchy was alive! I was seriously starting do doubt this as (well, as I said) utterly no sign of her.
It was over an hour from first sighting tonight and several near-misses to eventual recapture. You must understand you cannot grab at a tiny animal like that - she's no longer than my little finger. (And, incidentally, being the skinniest robo, the one who could least affort to be away from home and food.) I baited a long cardboard tube with birdseed and broccoli, which necessitated sitting right by it else I'd have to move and/or lunge which would panick her out of there. I put another normal-size toilet tube round the side of the books. And totally blocked off the cupboard so she could not get behind or underneath it.... let her ramble towards it. Inside she went. Two seconds later - CAPTURED!
NAUGHTY NAUGHTY LITTLE SWINE!!
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And my trots seems to have gone away, too!
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My own haiku of the day:
Baby Itchy -
naughty swine.
Nibbles seeds oblivious.
赤ちゃん痒い-
いたずらな豚です。
かじる種子気づかれます。
(translation courtesy Google translate - and I know the syllables don't go 5-7-5...)
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PS Couldn't resist passing the Japanese back through Babelfish and got this even more poetic rendition:
The baby it is itchy,
- it is the mischievous pig.
The seed which you gnaw you become aware.
*!!*
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Extra video of the day I found this last night but wasn't sure how to embedd it.
It's Japanese Sushibar Conveyorbelt Scenes ...
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STOP PRESS:
I'm opening a new Japanese blog. Full of Japanese things. With language lessons for me and anyone else who wants to learn some Japanese...
http://gledwoodnihon.blogspot.com
glad to hear baby itchy is home safe and sound and that your digestive tract has settled. may nto have been food poisoning you know, could have been some short-lived though very nasty bug going around.
ReplyDeleteVery short lived. I was so very ill though.
ReplyDeleteAnd thank GOD Itchy came back I was starting to feel I'd lost her forever...
Yay!!! Keeping my fingers crossed must have done the trick! I am glad to know Itchy is safe and sound again in her own little toilet tube!
ReplyDeleteRe: Blue Jays - they are not particularly shy although they will fly away if you get too close. The males and females are similar in size. There is an information link on my blog if you are still curious about them (click on Blue Jays).
OK!
ReplyDeleteYes Itchy is safe and sound and IN DISGRACE!
Really, setting up home behind that scummy old cupboard of all places!!!
Oh where oh where has my little swine gone? Oh where oh were could she be...
ReplyDeleteGood thing you learned those swine wrangling skills there Gledwood. Naughty itchy swine indeed.
Wriggly swine too. And jumpy. Jumped right over my arm yesterday right when I thought I had her cornered well and good...
ReplyDeleteHi Gleds, love the re-interpretation of your haiku...
ReplyDeleteOh dear, sounded like a crisis in the Gledwood residence...tut, tut. You're going to have to teach Itchy some standards...wild mice indeed! What will people say???
That she's a brazen floozy!
ReplyDeleteHi Gleds, I came over earlier and tried leaving a couple of messages for you but blogger must have been down - hurray for little Itchy so pleased those wild mice didn't kidnap her. She must be trying to tell you something - no idea what! But there's always a hidden message in most things.
ReplyDeleteWhat a relief (for you) that you are feeling brighter and in less urgent need of the loo. I'd blame the shopping basket handles - someone on the radio happily went into great detail about what we might pick up when do our grocery shopping, off the trolley or basket handle .... ugh!
Those Japanese haiku are brilliant
loved your Baby Itchy and the translation .... oh and the one from the other day about the cuckoo at mr toad's funeral. Might you try one about naughty whalers please *!*
Yay!! Good news. we were all getting worried about baby Itchy.
ReplyDeleteI have discovered that George, our puppy, loves broccoli. Perhaps he has robo genes.
I couldn't get on here yesterday to comment.
I love the Babel translation too!
ReplyDeleteHope your belly is better properly.
The prison chaplain was telling me about a visitor who tried to smuggle in a mobile phone to an inmate. Guess where he hid it?
Glad you finally caught him!
ReplyDeleteBimbimbie: thank God the trots has gone I know it was most inconvenient not being able to leave the house..!
ReplyDeleteLiz: I bet that phone stank afterwards ooer! I'm feeling much better thanks... I used to have a cat who ate broccoli, growling as she went. Great trick to throw when we had posh visitors haha!
Vi Vi: yeah 24 hours later! Having squeaked with the wild mice all that time!!
Hi Gleds
ReplyDeleteSorry its been a few days. I love all the antics of your precious babies! I am away for the weekend, but will be sure to check in for the next instalment of the hammies on my return. Hope Evilstein keeps away!
cheerio
lostgirl x
Awwwww, she had a little adventure...everyone needs one here and there. Glad that she is back!
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Lost: have a good time!!
ReplyDeleteEileen: Bloody Itchy living with the wild mice! I don't believe it!!... do you mind my asking where you are from? o, ps you know you can make it say your name at the top of your comments (if you like) by clicking other instead of anonymous then putting your name in but leaving the url space blank...
Oh, thank goodness you found her!
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