My wild and indeed international flora and fauna

Remember my old friend Willow? Well she has happily settled down in the home of the Canadian playmobile about 50km South of Lyon ...

look at her showing off here in her new abode!




And now look!! Another beautiful tree has become my namesake! Look!

http://www.therextras.com/

And guess where this "Abigail" tree is today?

In San Antonio, Texas!

Yes, that Texas country not far from Mexico .... ain't that something?

(that was me trying to sound American).

Thank you Dr Boucher for giving me such a great honour!

Not just a great therapist, but a pretty funky gardener too!

Moving on ...

.....allow me to introduce another of my great friends ....

"Electrode"

(um ... he's the slightly smaller of the two creatures below)

and my other great friend

"Hot Dog"

(she's the one with the slightly wider-open eyes)

I get to spend lots of quality time with Electrode, William, Hot Dog and Nathan ...

I have also, of late, become something of a bird-watcher.

You may remember Mama inherited two canaries about a year ago... well their home and family have expanded .... as you can see, they have all been very busy!


I am particularly fond of the bullfinches. Can you remember how incredibly tiny they were just a couple of weeks ago? And now look at the huge great things - I reckon they've been snacking on William and Nathan's four-cheeze pizzas - which I will confess I am becoming quite partial to myself, as it happens.
They don't really look like baby chicks any more do they? Yet they aren't even a month old yet!


And this is the bullfinch baby with his Papa ... are they cute or are they CUTE???

OK, so moving swiftly on from Mama's boring passion for all things with feathers (including Boa's - her mate Becka Boo suggested it was time I had my first, so watch this space, I could be sporting a purple diamante one before long).....

I have my uttered my fifth word!

You may remember that my current vocabulary stands at :

1. = "Mama"

2. = "Papa"

3. = "Ravwahr" (Au-Revoir = French for "Goodbye")

4. "Il est la" (= he/she/it is over there)

Well I now have a fifth word!

5. = "Na Naaan"

What do you mean: "What does that mean"?

It means "Nathan" of course.

off to learn some more words now!

toodle pip!

Can you tell Mama is frustrated at lack of Internet?

Mama is so frustrated at lack of Internet access that she has decided to launch a silliest joke contest .... just for the sake of it really. In many ways, I'm not looking forward to growing old enough to figure out why - oh WHY - she is cracked up on the public library floor because of these silly jokes. Yes, she is really having hysterics on the library floor. And all because of this email she received:

1. The roundest knight at King Arthur's round table was Sir Cumference. He acquired his size from too much pi. 2. I thought I saw an eye doctor on an Alaskan island, but it turned out to be an optical Aleutian. 3. She was only a whisky maker, but he loved her still.
4. A rubber band pistol was confiscated from algebra class because it was a weapon of math disruption.5. The butcher backed into the meat grinder and got a little behind in his work.
6. No matter how much you push the envelope, it'll still be stationery.
7. A dog gave birth to puppies near the road and was cited for littering.
8. A grenade thrown into a kitchen in France would result in Linoleum Blownapart.
9. Two silk worms had a race. They ended up in a tie.
10. Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
11. A hole has been found in the nudist camp wall.The police are looking into it.
12. Atheism is a non-prophet organization.
13. Two hats were hanging on a hat rack in the hallway. One hat said to the other, 'You stay here, I'll go on a-head.'
14. I wondered why the baseball kept getting bigger.Then it hit me.
15. A sign on the lawn at a drug rehab centre said:'Keep off the Grass.'
16. A small boy swallowed some coins and was taken to a hospital. When his grandmother telephoned to ask how he was, a nurse said, 'No change yet.'
17. A chicken crossing the road is poultry in motion.
18. The short fortune-teller who escaped from prison was a small medium, at large.
19. The man who survived mustard gas and pepper spray is now a seasoned veteran.
20. A backward poet writes in-verse.
21. In democracy it's your vote that counts. In feudalism it's your count that votes ..
22. When cannibals ate a missionary, they got a taste of religion.
23. Don't join dangerous cults, practice safe sects.

So WHAT, prey tell, is so funny?

Interrupted secret diary entries

Mama's computer is agonizing .... she hasn't been able to get it to function properly for over two weeks now.

This

is

driving

her

stark-raving mad

Not only has she not been able to help me write my oh-so-secret diary, but she and I DEARLY miss catching up on all our blogging friends news.

But be warned : YOU ARE NOT FORGOTTEN!

As soon as she finds a solution to the home computer situation, you will all be BOMBARDED with comments!!!!