Camera Critters 9

This is Pete. He sits and poses for everyone and when everyone is done, he will fly off. He won't stay away for long though, he knows there might be some food in it!

Photo taken in Ireland on the 'Slea Head Drive' on the Dingle peninsula.

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We're sorry

Well, that's what I get every time I want to see my own blog! And everyone else's for that matter. Apparently I'm a computer or a robot and very dangerous! So, they won't allow me to do anything!! I can post this, I can use the search part of google, I can visit any site not to do with google, but I cannot visit any that do have to do with google!

Grrrr....

Nepotism with tea bags

I've got several ways of staying awake behind the wheel after a very tiresome day. I eat. Sandwiches, sweets, apples, anything really. It's not really good for the waistline though! So, I chew. Chewing gum that is. I look like a camel on occasion, but it keeps me awake. I turn up the radio really loud, but I can't do that with people on board. I put the airconditioning up to freezing and open the window. But again, with people on board that doesn't really work that well. My last resort would be to actually stop the coach, get out and splash my face with cold water. And yet again...

There is of course one other way. It doesn't involve food, it doesn't involve noise, heat or cold, but it is quite effective. Provided there are vehicles on the road that is. I make words out of the letters on the numberplates. The words have to contain all the letters on the numberplate and in the right order as well! Today I made lots of words, but two that stood out because they were so close together were 'nepotism' and 'tea bag' (well, the Dutch word for teabag: theezakje).

This 'how to stay awake' remedy has an added bonus: sometimes I make words that do exist, but I don't really know the meaning of! So, as soon as I come home, out comes the dictionary.

Tea bag: ~noun. A container of thin paper or cloth holding a measured amount of tea leaves to make an individual serving of tea!

Just so you know...

Feline Friday 23

What do you mean I'm inside? Don't you see my front paws: they are outside! So, I am outside...

Chocolate

Chocolate and I don't mix. I know that. But it still doesn't stop me from having the odd bar now and then. Which in turn doesn't stop to give me a massive headache a few days later! Which just will not go away...

For four days I've had this thumping head now. Yesterday was reasonably okay and I didn't need any aspirins, but on the other days (including today) I've swallowed several aspirins just to try and control it.

Working with the sun blaring away (it was about 30 degrees Celsius today: we call that hot over here in the Netherlands) is not a great idea either. Getting up early (4am) also wasn't that fantastic.

Hopefully when I wake up early tomorrow morning (4am), my headache will have gone. And no more chocolate for me! I have learned my lesson (for now anyway...)

C is for...

Collection

When I visited the Open air museum in Arnhem last week they had a small exhibition about what people collect. And that small exhibition showed one thing: people collect the strangest things. Anything from salt and pepper shakers to Wedgewood, from moneyboxes to bicycles, from religious relics (photo bottom) to matchboxes, from cat statues to silver spoons, from farming tools to Pinocchio, from autographs to air sickness bags (photo top).

You wonder about why people collect. Is it something to do with our 'welfare' states? Just because we can or has it something to do with when we were children? Some people have to move house in order to show everything. Others use only a few rooms in the house, giving over the rest to the collection.

I used to collect bottlecaps. I had thousands of them. No really special ones, just loads and loads of the same. A cousin collected paper bags and (according to my mum) toiletpaper. I've since stopped collecting bottlecaps. It took a big bin to clear it all away. I've never started another collection. If you don't count books that is...

What do you collect and why?

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PS: little update after reading the second comment: I actually collect Christmas films, I've got over seventy so far...

Late

I hate getting up early. Especially if early means 9am when I only got to bed at 3.30am! And no, it wasn't because I couldn't be bothered to go to bed earlier, it was because I didn't get home until 2.45am!

You might be wondering why then did I get up early if I only got to bed at 3.30. Well, I had run out of milk! And several other things come to that. I had meant to get up later (half an hour), but having a headache, a hot room and 4 monsters dancing on the bed and me didn't really give me the opportunity.

I've got milk again now though. I checked the cartons to make sure they weren't leaking in any way. I've got enough vegetables to last me through the month. And I've got enough washing powder for white loads to last me to the end of the year. Unfortunately it's the colour version I've nearly run out of...

In a minute I will get myself an aspirin since the headache hasn't lifted yet, I will prepare my sandwiches for today, I will have a shower and then I will be off to work again. It won't be as late as yesterday, but I will miss the fantastic series 'A Town called Eureka'. Good thing it will be repeated twice this week!

I don't wanna...

I don't want to go back to work today!

I don't, I don't, I don't!!!

Milk

If you look at the picture and think: milk on the right, scrambled eggs on the left, you're half right! It's milk on the right. And milk on the left!

When I put feed in the cat's bowl this morning, I saw some watery liquid on the floor next to the bowl. It's not unusual for one of the cats to throw up, so I got some paper towels and cleaned it up. And then I saw more liquid on the cupboard. When I opened the cupboard, I quickly discovered the culprit. No, it wasn't a cat. It was a carton of milk. It had a hole in it somewhere I guess, the milk had turned sour and during the night it had finally burst open properly and all the liquid drained out. It was everywhere!

I started cleaning up the mess, in the process spilling buckwheat everywhere as well. So, not the best way to start the morning!

Camera Critters 8

A Dutch hen and rooster ('Hollands hoen' is the proper name of the breed) as seen in the Open air museum in Arnhem last Wednesday.

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