Christmas comes twice a year

On April 15, 2019April 13, 2019 By geordieroscoeIn a to z challenge5 Comments

Way-aye, Roscoe here. I’m keeping up our attempt to blog from A to Z once a week this year. We started on April 1st, and after seeing the A to Z’s tenth anniversary announcement, we realised it’s our tenth anniversary too. So watch out for fun at the beginning of May.

2019 A to Z badge — Blogging from A to Z

Today I’m talking C.

There’s one BIG C that we immediately think of. Not celery, although that’s nice. Celeriac is good too. Corn is a bit fancy, and it’s also fattening so Mam isn’t giving us that these days as we’re doing the D word.

Before I talk about the C food, I’ll mention Cuddles, which we get every day and we like a lot. I don’t much like the bit when Mummy checks us over and trims our toes, but I like the cuddle after, as long as it doesn’t go on too long. After cuddles comes ‘run around on the kitchen floor’ time, you see. That’s my favourite.

There’s also C for Christmas. So here we are in our silly Christmas hats. Colman is the only piggy in our world who began with C. He refused to wear his hat. I never met him. You can read more about him here, though.

Biggles

Colman does not do silly hats

Bertie

Roscoe with Santa hat

Neville

And of course the big important C word is… CUCUMBER! Did you guess?

Biggles and Bertie are two — If Biggles doesn’t eat his quickly, I’ll nip in and get it!

Next week, Bertie does D. We may even have a special guest for that. Mam’s still working on it. [I am?]

I read all your comments, and when it says ‘liked by Jemima’ that’s me 🙂

Bye for now

Roscoe

Bertie Blogs B for Breakfast

On April 8, 2019March 31, 2019 By bertie bootsIn a to z challenge7 Comments

Hello! I’m Bertie and I’m a guinea pig.

We’re blogging from A to Z once a week, because we have other important things to do, like have Breakfast. We sometimes have Baths, too. We eat Broccoli and Beans, and sometimes Basil. When Mummy’s bean plants are finished beaning , we get the leaves to eat, and they’re yummy.

Here are some pictures of things beginning with B, modelled by our world of guinea pigs.

Bertie with a Bottle

Biggles poses with Birthday cake

A nice mixed Breakfast

Blogging from A to Z

Biggles in a Bed

Roscoe and Neville in the Bath

Percy, Midge and Biggles with a Box of hay

Kevin and Percy share Birthday cake

Bertie with Bob’s beard

Biggles eats a Bean

I hope you like my photo-tour of the letter B

Next week Roscoe does C.

love

Bertie xxx

We’re blogging from A to Z – once a week

On April 1, 2019March 23, 2019 By geordieroscoeIn a to z challenge7 Comments

Way-aye, Roscoe here, on the 1st of April, which is the start of the A to Z Blogging Challenge.

Bertie

Biggles

Neville

Roscoe in the garden

I’d like to welcome everybody who visits and hasn’t met us before. Just to get one thing straight: we’re guinea pigs. I’m Roscoe, the mainly white one. Then we have Bertie, the smooth haired silver one with the white face, Biggles, his brother (although they don’t get on) who is silver-grey and very furry, and then my mate Neville, who’s brown and white and very hairy so most of the time you get to see hair, not Nev.

We’re blogging from A to Z once a week, because Mam won’t let us on the computer more often, since she needs it. So we’ll blog through the alphabet on Mondays, right through to September.

And we have an exciting thing to include…

A for Anniversary!

It’s this blog’s tenth anniversary in May, just like it’s the A to Z’s tenth anniversary! Isn’t that funny? We’re having a real party to celebrate in May, so come back and see us.

We’d also like to mention A for Augustus

He’s a guinea pig we don’t know very well, but he’s Auntie Dawn’s piggy and he lives in New York City. I don’t know where that is. I used to live in Newcastle, and now I live in Norfolk, and I had to go through York to get here, but that was a long time ago. It’s not the same place, Mam says.

Here’s a picture of Augustus, he’s a colour called lemon agouti. Agouti means he’s got a sort of speckled effect.

Bertie’s also agouti, but he’s silver agouti. You’ll meet him next week. We take it in turns to blog.

We’ll explain what George’s Guinea Pig World is all about when we get to G. All you need to know is we’re guinea pigs and the blog was started by George in May 2009. Come back every Monday to help us blog through the alphabet.

Till next time

Roscoe

xxx

It’s spring! We have proof!

On March 25, 2019March 24, 2019 By bertie bootsIn garden2 Comments

Bertie here, full of the joys of spring!

We went out in the garden for the first time this year at the weekend.

I thought it was a bit scary, all that sky above my head, so I hid under my tent. I still ate the grass I found there. I thought it was a bit cold on my feet, but nice under the shelter of the tent.

Biggles ran around with Roscoe and Neville! I know he’s been spending time with them on the floor, and more time than I have. I usually say hi and good-bye to Roscoe at floor time. Sometimes we get to bump noses, but usually if Mummy’s got my tent out I’ll go into that to avoid any confrontation. If there’s something we don’t argue about we can spend a while longer together these days. But I didn’t realise that Biggles had actually made friends with them. Turncoat. I knew there was a good reason I didn’t like him.

Bertie still hides behind the tent

Bertie hides under the tent

Biggles emerges onto the greass

View of the runs and the garden with Nev, Rosc and Bigs out in the open

Neville and Biggles eat from tents while Roscoe turns his back

Roscoe intent on the grass edges

Here are some pictures of us out on the grass. The white thing is the netting over the new seeds. Mummy’s sown carrots, salad leaves and something else for us in there. On the left is the bed with the veg that’s been growing all winter; swiss chard which we get for breakfast some days, curly endive (the same) and broad beans which will pod in a couple of months, Mummy says. And on the far right, behind the lavender, there are baby pea plants growing. That’s baby plants, not baby peas.

Next week we start the A to Z thing. I’m very excited about it.

See you in a couple of weeks,

Bertie

PS Did you see my interview with Joshua?

PPS. Mummy says we can come off our special low fat diet pellets because it’s made no difference to our weights. This is the latest chart.

neville and roscoe have their hair dried

Neville and I had a bath

On March 18, 2019March 18, 2019 By geordieroscoeIn Hygiene2 Comments

Way-aye, it’s me, Roscoe.

Mam’s been saying she’d give us a bath and the other day she did it. It’s not fair, really, since it’s only a few months since our last one. I don’t think Bertie and Biggles have had one since we’ve been here! (Mam just said they’d be having their’s this week, probably today.)

I don’t really mind having a bath, once it’s inevitable, like. I was running, or rather, splashing, around the big white bath until Mam caught me and made me all wet, and then I waited for Nev to get wet, then we got all soapy, and having it all rubbed into our coats, all over. It’s a really good feeling. I like it anyway. I’m not sure I like the funny spray thing that washes the soap out after, but it’s soon done.

Roscoe and Neville in the Bath

Mam wrapped us each in towels and we went and sat on her lap to get dry. Then after a while, when we were nearly dry, she put this very noisy warm wind on us, and made us drier. Then we came upstairs to our nice clean run. Even the cagewear had been washed.

Bertie’s been talking about doing the alphabet each week. I like the idea. Mam said something about finding when we’d first done it on here. It was 2012, and Victor did it. That was three years after the A to Z started. Then Mam discovered it was three years after George’s Guinea Pig World started. So it’s our tenth anniversary this year, too.

So as well as doing the alphabet, we’re going to have something special around 7th May, which is the anniversary of George starting this website up. He did this post to welcome everybody, and it all went from there.

We’ve only filled nine letters, so far. We’ve thought of two things for A, six for B, one for C, three for G, one for K, for each for M and N, two for P and one for R. We’ve got a lot more thinking to do. Oh, Mam’s just suggested ‘degu’ for D…

And that’s a reminder that Bertie is being interviewed by Joshua the Degu on Friday, on Auntie Tori’s website. You’ll be able to find the interview here, but it isn’t alive until Friday (22nd March).

See you next time!

Roscoe

There’s something called A to Z

On March 11, 2019March 9, 2019 By bertie bootsIn a to z challenge3 Comments

Hello everybody, Bertie here!

There’s something called A to Z where you go through the alphabet during April, posting every day about something beginning with the right letter. Percy was doing it when Biggles and I came to live with him. Well, he was still doing it when we got too big to be in the same cage and he went to live with Midge, but that’s another story.

Anyway, next month is April, and I asked Mummy if we could do it.

Mummy: you know it’s a lot of work, Bertie?

Me: Well, maybe.

Mummy: and you have to find time to visit everyone who visits you.

Me: I can do that.

Mummy: and you have to think of a topic for each letter of the alphabet, and find pictures of it, and make a nice post.

Me: I can do that.

Mummy: Every day. Probably instead of grass time.

Me: Er….

Mummy: I tell you what. Get together with Roscoe and the others and see if you can make a list of things to post about. Roscoe can post the list here next week. Maybe aunties can give you ideas for any gaps.

Me: er… okay. And then can we do the A to Z in April?

Mummy: Maybe. Why not just post once a week from A to Z? That would take you through to the autumn. It wouldn’t be so much work for you and you’d still have grass time.

Me: That sounds great! Do we still have to make the list?

Mummy: That’s up to you.

So, I told Roscoe all about it, and we’re going to put a list together. He might put it up next week, or I’ll do it the week after. But it isn’t going to be all done in April. It’s going to be a Long-term Project.

Don’t you think that’s a good idea?

See you next time

love

Bertie xxx