M is for Mam, or Mummy, as Bertie calls her

On June 24, 2019June 24, 2019 By geordieroscoeIn a to z challenge, Health1 Comment

Hi there! It’s me, Roscoe, the Ruler of the East!

No, seriously, I just wanted to sound different today. It’s just GeordieRoscoe as usual. We’re still blogging from A to Z once a week, and we’ve just reached halfway with M. But we have an Appeal further down the page, so please read right to the end. Ta.

The best M I could think of is M for Mother, which means Mam, or for Biggles and Bertie, Mummy. I’m not sure why we call her different things. I don’t think she’s different for each of us. Then I thought some more and decided to ask each of us a question – or set us a challenge, anyway.

Sum up Mam (Mummy) in one sentence

Bertie

She’s the bringer of food, the cuddler of cuddles, the cleaner of cages, the scratcher of crests, and I love everything she does except cut my nails.

Biggles

I love Mummy because she looks after me and brings me cucumber, and makes sure I’m well, even if I’m not feeling happy. And she puts up with me when I’m grumpy and makes me feel better.

That’s two sentences, Bigs.
Well the second one begins with And, so it would be one if I hadn’t had to put the full stop in.
Oh, okay.

Neville

Mam brushes my hair and smoothes my coat and cleans my ears and makes sure I get enough to eat even if someone tries to eat my portions. And lets us run in the garden when it’s nice.

That’s…
Okay, what Bertie said.

Me, Roscoe

Mam understands how important I am, and sees to my needs, and looks after my welfare, and makes sure I’m looking my best as much as she can. And goes out to play golf or watch birds a lot.

Bertie: That’s not fair, I want a second sentence, too.
Roscoe: Go on then

Bertie (2): And we all love her but that sounds soppy and it’s really difficult to think of something different from the others. I’m glad I went first.

Roscoe: hee-hee, I know just what you mean.

So that’s what Mam (Mummy) means to us, and we’re all very grateful we’ve got her.

Appeal

Please give some thought for the piggies at the East Anglian Guinea Pig Rescue. Auntie Sophie was just restarting as a rescue in a small way after Christmas, and had about twenty piggies in, then they all had babies, and then a couple came in that had an illness that didn’t show during their quarantine period.

Mam says the illness is called Chlamydia Cavia, and basically all the piggies that came into contact with the others are either sick or potentially carriers, and can never be rehomed anywhere with either other guinea pigs, rabbits or cats (because cats get it too).

So now Auntie Sophie has 60 guinea pigs with no way of rehoming them (and no rehoming fees to contribute to costs). Unless you have no guinea pigs, rabbits or cats. And she has a lot of wishlist items and vet bills to pay. Mam says the vet bills are covered for now by donations already.

If you would like to sponsor a piggy or contribute in any way, please see East Anglian GR Amazon wish list, or wait for further details of the sponsorship scheme.

I was a guinea pig in a rescue once and I know how it feels. Thank you for caring about us.

love

Roscoe xxxxx

L is for Lavender, which we Like a Lot

On June 17, 2019June 18, 2019 By bertie bootsIn a to z challenge4 Comments

Hello, Bertie here again.

I Love Lavender. Others Like it a Lot. There’s Little more to say. Although Mummy says I should be more Loquacious. Wax Lyrical.

Bertie eats lavender

George and Fred with cucumber & lavender birthday cake

Biggles eats lavender

Dylan prunes the lavender

Percy finds the lavender

Neville eats lavender

Roscoe eats lavender

Oscar with a lavender and cucumber birthday cake

But I’ll Let it Lie.

See you next time 🙂

LOVE from

Bertie

K is for Kitchen!

On June 10, 2019June 14, 2019 By geordieroscoeIn a to z challenge4 Comments

Way-aye, Roscoe here.

I was wondering about the letter K, because all I could think of was KALE. Bertie reminded me there used to be a hero here called KEVIN, but I never met him, and Bertie says he only met him once or twice.

So I asked Mam, and she said, well, where do you spend your mornings most days?

KITCHEN, I said. So I found us some pictures of us pigs in our KITCHEN and Mam found a nice moving one of me checking the kitchen extension out. So here they are.

Roscoe in the haybox

Bertie and Neville

Bertie looks after Percy

Biggles on Thursday (he went all shy in the garden)

Neville and Bertie

Percy, Midge and Biggles with a Box of hay

It’s nice, running around the kitchen. Always some interesting smells to explore, although when Mam had a deep clean one time a lot of them disappeared. There are still a few lurking behind the cupboard door where the washing and heating machines are. But they’re very faint. And Bertie and I get to hang out under the closed table our cage used to be on. Mam can’t get there, except with something long and thin like a brush.

Yes, I like our KITCHEN. And that’s it for K. Next week, Bertie tackles L. But in between that we celebrate Princelings Day on Thursday. That’s Fred & George’s birthday, June 13th. And that’s when our Tenth Anniversary official ends – so enter the Giveaway because Mam has that nice George’s Guinea Pig World notebook to give to one of our lucky fans!

See you next time

love

Roscoe xxx

J is for Joshua – an #atozchallenge post

On June 3, 2019June 14, 2019 By bertie bootsIn a to z challenge, guest interviews2 Comments

2019 A to Z badge — Blogging from A to Z

Hello, Bertie here.

I’m very excited because today I’ve got an interview with our friend JOSHUA.

We thought of this ages ago when we first decided to do the A to Z Challenge once a week, so I haven’t had to think of any more words beginning with J. I don’t think we know any piggies beginning with J, although we have several Auntie JULIEs, and I’m sending love to each of you from each of us.

JOSHUA is a degu, and we told you about them for the letter D.

Hello Joshua and welcome to George’s Guinea Pig World.

First of all, please tell us – who are your companions and what are their favourite things?

There are the human caretakers. The Mummy human mostly hangs out with us, or does reading or writing. She does messy craft projects and cooks yummy smelling foods too. The Daddy human mostly does things on his computer thingy, watches TV, or cleans up the Mummy human’s messes. He cleans up our messes too.

I used to have three brothers: Jacob, Jasper, and Jenks. Yep, all four of us had “J” names. We looked a lot alike too. But they went across the rainbow bridge a couple of years ago. Now it’s just me in my cage. Continue reading “J is for Joshua – an #atozchallenge post” →

I is for Ideas, sadly lacking, and Ignorance

On May 27, 2019May 25, 2019 By geordieroscoeIn a to z challenge3 Comments

Way-aye! Roscoe here again.

We’re up to I in the A to Z weekly blog challenge. And I’m all out of IDEAS.

I spotted ISLE of Mull, but Bertie blogged about that last week under Holidays.

Then I was talking to Auntie Vikki the other day and the matter of IGNORANCE turned up. Auntie Vikki used to run a rescue, but she got so tired of ill-treated piggies, or people dropping off piggies they didn’t want any more because the children had lost INTEREST. How can anyone lose interest in someone like me?

Well, it’s a good question, because I have personal experience of IGNORANCE.

Neville and I were just left in the house we lived in. JUST LEFT! I have no idea whether we did something wrong, or we weren’t exciting enough for the kiddies. They seemed to enjoy playing with us when they did, and that was quite often. I was generally on my best behaviour with them.

But then we were left, all alone. Why couldn’t she take us to the local rescue? The lady there could have helped us. Was she too ashamed? I’d be more ashamed of just abandoning someone. She didn’t leave her children behind and they seemed much more trouble than we were.

In one way we were lucky, though. The landlord man came in the next day and found us. He made sure we had hay and water and he contacted the nice lady at NEGPR. We stayed in the house for a bit with the landlord popping in to say hello and top up our food, then we went to a foster home, and then we went to the rescue. And then Mam found us and came all the way to Newcastle to pick us up.

But we did better than Humphrey and Hector. They are legends. They were left in their house when their carers moved out AND TOLD NOBODY! How can anyone do that? H&H weren’t found for a MONTH. They were starving. Hector had even been eating Humphrey’s hair. He was no more than a babe then, and that’s why Mam always put up with him being such an angry pig. He eventually learned to trust her, as we all do.

Mam says everyone knows nothing to start with, but some people are ignorant and decide not to learn. She says she’s still learning.

Well, she’s learnt her lessons pretty well so far, even if she doesn’t always give me enough time to relieve myself before she picks me up for my morning cuddle. That’s why I pick at her sleeve to get away sometimes. See, that’s another bit of ignorance gone, because when she reads this, she’ll understand.

Thanks for letting me get all that off me chest.

Bertie’s got a special guest next week. I’ve got to start thinking of what to say for the letter K. It’s hard, this alphabet thing.

Have a good week

love

Roscoe xx

H is for Holidays, Hampshire and Hay

On May 20, 2019May 19, 2019 By bertie bootsIn a to z challenge4 Comments

HELLO! Bertie here. Today we’ve got as far as letter H in our A to Z blog.

HAY is always at the top of our minds, but Mummy said everyone has blogged about hay, and shown pictures of Humphrey and George and the others hiding in it. As well as eating it of course.

So I thought I’d tell you about HOLIDAYS.

The first holiday that George’s Guinea Pig World went on was when George, Fred, Hugo and Victor went with Mummy to the Isle of Mull. That’s a very long way, and includes a trip on a boat! They went back the next year too. You can read about their trip here.

When there were five or more piggies here nobody went on holiday, because Mummy couldn’t fit everyone in the car. Mummy took a couple of holidays, but she didn’t take us with her. She went to cold places like Svalbard and Iceland.

But now we are four, Mummy’s taken us on holiday twice – to HAMPSHIRE!

We told you about the first trip here, but we went again in April, about the time we started this Blog Challenge, so we haven’t shown you the new photos.

We stayed in the same place, but it was warmer later in the week, and we went out on the grass next to the cottage. We couldn’t go on the grass immediately in front of the cottage because it had been treated with ‘Feed and Weed’ which would be poisonous to us, or at least upset our tummies. The grass we went on had dandelions and things growing in it. Mummy made sure it didn’t have daisies or buttercups in it where we were, but it was nice. The run was a bit small, though, because we were using the panels indoors as well.

Lawn mowing at the cottage

Bertie on the table

Bertie considers escape

Biggles on the table

Top Tug showing off

Top Tug at home

River Meon

Morning social

Mummy went out most days but came back to give us a cuddle later on. One day she went to a place where they train racehorses. Top Tug is one of her racing club’s. He ran on Saturday and came fifth. Mummy says that’s fine for his first race of the season. She also had lunch with Dani and her Mummy, and also with her other nieces. Mummy has a very big family. Although I’ve got more family at Auntie Sophie’s house.

Anyway, that’s our Holiday in Hampshire, complete with Hay, all for H in the A to Z challenge.

I’m glad Roscoe’s doing I next week, because I have no Idea what to talk about for that!

love

Bertie xxx

PS Don’t forget to enter our Tenth Anniversary Giveaway – we really want lots of entries so someone wins a prize!