Hi there, Percy here again.  This is the five hundredth post on George’s Guinea Pig World.  I am very honoured.

I suppose I’m honoured to be part of the worldwide blogging community. Well, that’s what Mummy calls all the people who blog, everywhere in the world.  We don’t know everyone that blogs all over the world, but we do know some of you 😀

I thought I’d better give you a run-down of who’s been posting in George’s Guinea Pig World (with their funny usernames), although you probably know them better than I do, because you have a longer memory than me.

Our authors on the blog

George (georgiepig)

George started it all.  I don’t know if Mummy suggested it or he did.  You can still read his original introduction to the blog.  He first blogged on 8th May 2009, with two posts, one about favourite foods, and the other about having his grease gland cleaned.   He did 63 posts, the last one was on 1st May 2011, which was about Hector’s first birthday.  A lot of his posts are about visits to the dentist, because George had bad teeth and lots of operations.  Mummy says I remind her of him sometimes, especially when I’m being stoical. I had to look that word up.

Fred (freddieready)

Fred was George’s brother, and he took over when George died.  He’s a little more intellectual than George. He started some new posts about the way the world works, and left one to be published on the spring equinox. That surprised Mummy because he died the November beforehand.  He just missed George too much.  It seems to be that way with brothers that live together.  Fred did 51 posts including his memories of George on the day before he died.

Victor (Victorthefirst)

Victor took over from Fred, after 18th November 2011, although he’d stepped in once before when George couldn’t post because he was in hospital.  He had a style of his own, but he settled down to proper English eventually. He did 93 posts, including an AtoZ Challenge on the theme of food (good theme!). He alternated with Dylan for a while, then Dylan lost interest for a bit.  Hm, sounds a little like Bertie. Then Victor continued on his own until he died in May 2013. I think Victor did lots of interesting posts.

Dylan (Dylancavy)

Dylan’s first post was a very short introduction when Victor was doing the A to Z Challenge in April 2012.  Dylan was only four or five months old then. He blogged off and on until Victor died, when he took over.  His posts are really very good; he puts a lot of his personality into them. He got to report on the Jubilee Party in the Park, which we’ve never managed to replicate because there’s always someone who will pick a fight (Bertie). He also reported on his ninja capabilities (probably outside the ninja code). He did an AtoZ Challenge with Kevin, talking about guinea pig friends, which is useful because a lot of them are in Mummy’s books. He did 110 posts in all, so he was very industrious in spite of forgetting several times.

Kevin (KevintheBold)

Kevin joined in just before the Ato Z Challenge with Dylan.  Kevin always sounds very reasonable, but then he was.  He was clever without being a cleversticks (Dylan). He had an amazing life, like Colman, and he told us about it a few times. In fact his first post was Colman for the AtoZ Challenge, but he’d been looking after the Facebook page before that, so he knew how to talk to people. He only blogged 58 times, but they were really good posts, including guest interviews with people, like Auntie Dawn.  Maybe I should do some more. He died in May, after getting a lumpy neck after Colman died.  I’d started to help out, and we did the A to Z together on the theme of things we liked.  That was only last year.  I still miss him.

Percy (Misterpercypig)

I was the next Blogger to take over.  I first posted on 4th April 2016, and got Kevin to check it for me. I did a post called The Last of the Jubilee Seven when Kevin went over the Bridge. This is my seventy-third post!  I wonder if I’ll manage to get past Victor?

Bertie (Bertiebossyboots)

Sigh.  What to say about Bertie?  He’s a nightmare, although he can be very sweet. So far he’s done sixteen posts, and most of them are me, me, me. He’ll probably improve as he grows up, and maybe he’ll be back again in future.

Roscoe (Geordieroscoe)

Roscoe has only just started, as you know.  He’s a nice chap.  I like him.  I could do with spending more time with him, in truth, but I expect when we get grass time we’ll get more time to chat.  That shouldn’t be long now. Although it was snowing again last week. Roscoe’s done three posts so far, and they’ve all been interesting, haven’t they.

And Mummy…

So that’s us, and I hope the posts add to 500.  Well, they don’t, because sometimes Mummy posts things (32), especially memorials, and occasionally other things.

People who’ve lived here who haven’t posted are Hugo, Hector, Humphrey, Colman, Oscar and Midge.  I wonder why.  I’ll ask Midge and tell you next time.

Oh, and I’d just like to thank Auntie Vikki for coming in and seeing us this week.  It’s been great.

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