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Stoats and gorilla suits and drums, oh my!

It’s not like you can see that at the local suburban mall here.

*sigh*

Nap time, tea time and booze time?! Too full a schedule for me. . . I’m retired!

nap time, tea time and booze time sounds heavenly! Especially the nap time! Live it up while you can before you have to punch a clock again. I am so jealous!!!!!!

The Badger isn’t best pleased by this tree-felling. The rooks are noisy but, damnit, they have a right to be here, too (maybe more of a right – and no I am not a bloody hippy!).

Anyway… anyway… poor old rooks. I used to stumble out in the mornings and they’d pretend to be alarmed and caw at me – so (of course) I’d caw back.

We’d keep ourselves amused for ages.

The good news is there are trees in the field at the back, but… how do you rebuild your home in a few hours of daylight when some imbecile with a chainsaw hacks it down in minutes?

Worried about this neighbourhood now. A damned stoat moves in and the next thing I know my neighbours are telling me they have one living in their garden, too.

It could be a plot.

I bet if you check, that stoat has a Made in America tag.

It is definitely a plot.

My experience, too — Brits are W*E*I*R*D.

Importing stoats without the proper license?!? Tsk! Tsk!

*snort*

Seeing that gorilla reminds me of the time I was in a big shopping mall in Gothenburg, Sweden circa December 1994. Turned a corner and I swear on a weasel’s eyes, there was Michael Jackson lip-syncing Billie Jean and moonwalking on a little stage amidst a bunch-o-Swedes in the middle of the mall.

True story.

Once one stoat arrives, well you know how it is — there goes the neighborhood!

🙂

Don’t want to sound like one-note geoff, but it seems to me (as I sit here sipping my Fuller’s ESB) that that’s not a photograph of a pub.

Just saying.

I’ll give you all the photos you like of the OUTSIDE of pubs, geoff. But it’s, like, $5 for a pint of beer in a pub. It’s not exactly cheap to drink at home, but you’d have to be wealthy beyond all measure to support proper alcoholic habits in your local.

Since the smoking ban, they’re losing something like thirty pubs a week in the UK, too. Very sad.

Train a motion sensitive camera on the porch and capture a photo of the little devil. Or will that make you wind up in gaol??

Speaking of British words, and as a follow-up to the “rubber” thing I mentioned earlier, the other day, a dude at work had a pack of cigarettes under his chair. (The cigs turned out not to be his.) I ALMOST said, “Hey, are those your fags under the chair?” Not trying to be funny, not trying to be offensive – that was just the first thing that popped into my mind. Good job I didn’t say anything. Could have been a bit of a sticky wicket, eh wot wot?

Last week, making an already depressing day more depressing for most students, a student presented an article on the closure of English pubs. Quite depressing.

He said some of the factors were the smoking ban, and now the ability to buy stuff cheaper at the market than at the pub.

Since the smoking ban, they’re losing something like thirty pubs a week in the UK, too.

Oh that’s just freakin’ great. I had assumed that if I lived a virtuous life, when I died I would transcend this sorry existence and find myself on an eternal pub crawl. Guess I can abandon virtue now.

We’ve been making vague plans to get to the UK sometime in the next few years. This makes it imperative.

And $5/pint? That’s a pretty common price in the States, too. Not a very powerful deterrent.

Now this is somewhat off the general Topic O’ the Day…

Still, I still find it passing strange that someone sould willingly move form the land of Pepsi and pork rinds to the land of dank weather and bad dental hygiene…

And yet, perhaps there are reasons beyond the simple proffered excuses!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3685314/Young-women-have-more-sexual-partners-than-men.html

Word of advice, stoatie. If the guy in the monkey suit comes over nd introduces himself as Bonobo, RUN!!!!

What are the disadvantages to having your wicket be sticky?

Just askin’.

“And hello…I’m Bonobo…of Ubu2u…”

Jill, google the bonobo, you’ll find even more reason to laugh…. 😉

Here ya go, UB:

http://mine.icanhascheezburger.com/view.aspx?ciid=2016597

Can I just say that I once dressed up in a gorilla suit and Santa hat to deliver a banana cake to my then-boyfriend on his December 25th birthday? Well, I did. I was 19 or 20.

Right after that he got himself a new girlfriend.
One that dressed up in lingerie and ballet slippers instead of gorilla suits.

OMG, Jill is Sarah Silverman? 😉

(just kidding)

Yeah, we were having a party, Scubafreak 😉

The pub thing is very sad, though, having said that, I’ve never been a pub kinda badger. But Muslihoon’s college project is about right. The rot began when they imposed tough drink-driving laws (and they are about to get tougher, still). That hit the small, olde worlde country pubs, which you had to drive to get to.

A lot of those switched to offering meals and some became very notable restaurants as a result but, of course, not all of them were able to make that transition.

This latest hit has been down to the nannying neo-puritans in the socialist government doing three things: raising tax on alcohol, effectively restricting live music (they’ve imposed tough licensing ‘safety’ rules on that) and the aforementioned smoking ban.

Harder to assess is the effect of competition from supermarket sales (it astounded her Ladyship when she first came over here and saw how freely booze is sold next to the baked beans).

It’s true you can buy a six pack of Olde Wife-Beater for a lot less than it costs in the Frog and Halfpenny, but people go to pubs for the company and the atmosphere.

We were in a rather posh town on the coast today and even in the high st. of this prosperous town, two of the pubs had closed.

Oh dear, her Ladyship has just wandered in with an armful of cat. I seem to be on head-stroking duties…

Of course booze is next to baked beans.
And right before catsup…all things being alphabatetical.
😉

“Now this is somewhat off the general Topic O’ the Day…”

Now I’m really confused! Wouldn’t an actual topic of the day to deviate from be frowned upon around these parts! -insert smilie here-