Coming to an end

Well, that was fun. I showed you a picture of me at the start, which was taken at the start, so have another for the end, taken at the end! Sorry this one's a webcam photo.


Altogether, at this point at least, I got 5 pledges totalling $104.34, which is roughly £50. The RSPCA could always do with a lot more, so I'll just point people at the place to make a pledge, here.

Monitor mascots

My human supporters mostly faded away during the night, even the sister-critter who declared her intentions to stay up all night. However, Psycho Sheep and Care-in-the-Community Hippo, my monitor mascots, have been perched there all along.


They're tied together with a ribbon in case Psycho Sheep gets any ideas. ;) Although he's looking a lot saner than he did. Both of them were rescued animals, in a sense -- Psycho Sheep from a bag I hadn't looked in for years, and Care-in-the-Community Hippo from the top of a pen.

My sister the critter

I'm running out of things to post about, so this time I really will talk about my sister, the critter. :p It's a strange being, really -- not so much nocturnal as afternoon-evening-early-morning-turnal. At the moment it's still in a strange stage between sleeping and waking -- somewhat coherent, responding to prodding, but still prone to snapping. Approach with care.

More further adventures

Other things Dad was telling me about Whisky and Herbie:

-Each, thinking they were conning the other, would eat the other's dinner.
-After Whisky's dinner, it was bathtime. First Whisky would groom himself, and then it was Herbie's turn -- and woe betide him if he tried to escape.

Giraffes

I've been meaning to post this since I first mentioned giraffes. Which was ages ago. xD Oops. It's been hanging around in my photobucket account patiently, so...


My friend Aasiyah brought this back for me when she went on holiday -- I think she went to see relatives, but I'm not going to embarass myself and try to guess which country. Anyway, the thing around it's neck is also from her -- she went to a different school after our GCSEs, so the giraffe's necklace is a keepsake that used to be attached to her pencilcase.

What d'you know, I'm not actually as tired anymore. I'll still go to bed early, but perhaps not until some time after dinner...

Rufus

I can't believe that in my dorkery about The Dark is Rising, I missed out three dogs altogether -- one of them very important. Rufus, Tip, and Pen. Rufus is the one that's important, of course; he accompanies the Drews in their adventures, though he belongs to an Old One.

"'Oh, where is he?" Barney still jigged impatiently on the dusty grey platform, glaring at the disappearing backs that masked his view. Then suddenly he stood still, gazing downwards. 'Hey - look.'

They looked. He was staring at a large black suitcase among the forest of shuffling legs.

'What's so marvellous about that?' Jane said.

Then they saw that the suitcase had two brown pricked ears and a long waving brown tail. Its owner picked it up and moved away, and the dog which had been behind it was left standing there alone, looking up and down the platform. He was a long, rangy, lean dog, and where the sunlight shafted down on his coat it gleamed dark red."

Key-mon? Monkey!

And this would be the essential Final Fantasy reference. This, too, is about monkeys. In FFX-2, there's a sacred place that in X was the goal of a summoner's pilgrimage. The pilgrimages are no longer necessary, and the tourists are moving in...

...Until Yuna, Rikku and Paine find the monkeys, pair them up, and encourage monkey love. The monkeys multiply, and no one wants to go to the sacred place anymore.

(Except my sister. She'd probably do a lot to get to go there.)