Run away with me!

We love this small, out of the way pet shop we visit sometimes, because of the sweet critters there! (As a pet shop itself it rather sucks ). There’s a standoffish squirrel you just want to sneak into your backpack, and two very bouncy, friendly little meerkats who love a good back rub through their bars! Just look at that earnest little face? Doesn’t it make kidnapping seem worthwhile?

Firey skies

Being on the plot we get some SUPER WOW sunsets! Isn’t this one gorgeous? Models, actresses and all their skeleton crew posse, wish they could look this good without enhancing ‘touch ups’! Natural beauty rules!!

My good Sir!

This is Professor Ham, or Proff H to his friends. He’s our little dwarf hamster, (cause seriously a home isn’t a home without a hamster, you know!). He’s a lively, curious little chap who tends to sleep throughout the day, waking only, and conveniently, when I’m in the kitchen making snacks. The cat finds him terribly interesting though they have yet to be formally introduced. (Owing to the fact that siblings eating each other is somewhat frowned upon here).

Happy Teddy?

I suppose I don’t really have to comment on this one. But still! They couldn’t have put the handle a little higher up? I can just imagine the drawer getting stuck and having to yell, “Don’t worry, it will work if you give a good yank on the Teddie's knob!

Over troubled water?

I’ve been passing this bridge for years and wondering about it. Last Tuesday (20 July 2010) I decided eh, bugger it, let’s go see what it’s about. It’s a bit rickety and not exactly confidence building, (I walked across with my hands at the ready to grasp at the rails should the floor fall out at any give second!). The water below is not exactly deep, but it’s filthy and full of broken glass and just not an ideal spot for a sudden unexpected dip. I think I’ll carry on walking around this from now on…

Of cats and clementines

This is me showing the cat, The Finger of Justice! I do this when she’s being particularly wild and annoying. She understands it enough to know that it means trouble if she continues what she’s doing. Sometimes, when she’s very naughty, she will do a slow backwards somersault never removing her eyes from the finger. Yip, she’s an odd critter!

The second reason I put this pic up was to show what excess Vitamin C and Beta Carotene do to my skin in winter. Namely turn my skin an interesting shade of orange! (It’s very noticeable on my fingers, palms, soles of my feet, knees, elbows and, curiously, in a circle about my mouth.) Isn’t it odd?

Flushed

This is the hotel room Ursh stayed in when she went to Durban all by herself! The thing that gets me is that window showing you the “stunning view” of the bathroom! I mean, do they feel couples need to watch each other on the bog and what, shout encouragement? “You go honey, push! Push! I think it’s going to be a big one!!”

Diabolical

Diablo 2 is my favorite, and indeed only really, computer game I love to play! This pic is of my Amazon’s arrow annihilating a walking skeleton. The green thing is a chipped Emerald he will drop for me to add to my weapons paraphernalia! This game is very addictive; it changes each time you play it! (Basic missions are the same but the monsters and things you find along the way are as different as chalk and cheese! (And a bit more disturbing)). I can play for hours! Anyone want to join me?

Wuff!

The tales I could tell of the dogs I meet along my walk! Today let’s talk quantity!

A. This home has 6, yes 6, large dogs guarding it. I can’t tell what 5 of them are but the 6th is a black and white Great Dane, the others are only a bit smaller. Now this house doesn’t have a huge yard and it’s really not something you look twice at, so why all the dogs? I feel very sorry for the gardener guy who works there; he must be on doggy poop duty 24/7!

B. Photographing these dogs isn’t easy! They all go bonkers when they see me coming and tend to spread out in attack formation along the fence. Here you can see 4 dogs if you squint hard enough. The other 5 are along the wall. Yip in total there are 9 little dogs (2 Yorkies, 5 Dachshunds and 2 Terriers, from what I can tell). I’m assuming that 9 is the max number, there could be more! Can you imagine having so many dogs? I’d worry that one day they decide to swarm and take me down like a pack of small nippy wolf-wannabes!!

VrooooooooooooooKERPOW!

Tell me, when you see a wreck as bad as this one, don’t you think, What on earth did they do?! I love planning stories around car wrecks! The priest who drove off a cliff because of that choir boy thing, an angry wife road into her cheating husband, there was a spider on the dash board, who knows?

Loo-k!

I tried to give Ursh a new hobby. Collecting photos of public loos. For some reason it never took.

Why not just ride?

There are some stables close to where we live. They keep tons of horses there, crammed in like hay-smelling sardines. So it’s not unutterably unusual to see one of the guys out on a run with a horse following close behind. I always wonder what would happen if he tripped and fell before the horse could slow its momentum? Run Sipho, run!!