H is for Holidays, Hampshire and Hay

On May 20, 2019May 19, 2019 By bertie bootsIn a to z challenge3 Comments

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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.

Top Tug showing off

Morning social

Top Tug at home

Biggles on the table

Lawn mowing at the cottage

Bertie on the table

Bertie considers escape

River Meon

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!

F is for Four May Legends

On May 6, 2019May 1, 2019 By bertie bootsIn a to z challenge8 Comments

Hello, Bertie here, blogging from A to Z.

We’ve reached F, which was a very difficult letter to think of something interesting to write about.

I mean, there’s FOOD, and FRED, who is a very important guinea pig indeed. And FLEECE, which we have on the floor of our cages with pads underneath, to give us nice bedding.

But when Mummy put the calendar on the wall onto May, I saw that there were FOUR legends of our world, whose pictures occupied one day each. That means these are special days for those pigs. It can be birthdays and Gotcha days, but these are all Rainbow Bridge Days.

These are our FOUR May legends

Kevin went over the Bridge on the 9th, two years ago. We met him and ran around with him in the garden in the April. We’d only been here a month. He was very patient with us. He had just FINISHED doing the A to Z with Percy. I think this is why Mummy told us we couldn’t do the A to Z every day, because everyone that had done that went over the Rainbow Bridge soon afterwards. It’s too much hard work for us.

Then George, who went on May 13th a long time ago. He’s the FOUNDER of this blog of course. He was an engineer and a legend. He worked very hard on the FORUM that is no more. It seems like most of the things George did were part of history now.

Victor went when he was very old, and he was ill in the morning and went over the Bridge at lunchtime. Mummy knew because she had a premonition when she was playing golf. She says it was very spooky, but she wasn’t FRIGHTENED, just surprised.

And Percy, my mate, who I still miss, but I’ve got a bit used to not having him around. He was very wise. He went on the last day of May, the 31st, last year. I miss him. It was FUN playing with him.

So those are my FOUR legends of the George’s Guinea Pig World for May.

And please come back tomorrow because we’re celebrating a very SPECIAL DAY, and you can enter a competition and win prizes.

love

Bertie

PS Mummy called me FRED the other day!

E is for Easter Eggs

On April 29, 2019April 28, 2019 By geordieroscoeIn a to z challenge4 Comments

Way-aye, Roscoe here.

I’m a bit behind on the lettering, because EASTER was last weekend, but since Mam gave us Easter boxes, I thought I ought to say something about it.

It’s the same sort of yummy box that Mam gave us for Christmas, but this time she gave one each to Biggles and Bertie as well as one for Neville and me. Hang on, that means we share, but they get one each. That isn’t fair!

Oh, hang on, Mam’s just filled our up again with herby hay. That’s okay then. Right.

Mam had an Easter Egg in a box, but it was made from Green & Blacks Dark Chocolate. It smelled terrible. I don’t know how she can eat that stuff. Our boxes are filled with hay and made from lovely noisy grass-covered cardboard. They sound and taste AMAZING!

They help us take lots of EXERCISE as we push them around in our runs. We also got out to EAT grass last week, which was also amazing

That’s enough Es from me. I’m going to take it EASY 🙂

Bye for now. Special week next week – with TWO posts, Mam says. She’s writing the second one. Sounds EXCITING!

Roscoe xxx

D is for Degu, and for Midge’s anniversary

On April 22, 2019May 19, 2019 By bertie bootsIn a to z challenge6 Comments

Hello! Bertie here. We’re blogging from A to Z once a week, through to September. Mummy says it’ll take us that long, but we need to spend more time eating grass outside, and not stuck in front of the computer.

D is for Degu!

I have a blogging friend who’s a degu. It’s a small furry animal (like me) but not like me, as he has a long tail and he climbs very well, and he’s quite a lot different in other ways too.

Say hello to Joshua the Degu!

He’s a handsome chap, isn’t he? Joshua interviewed me and Roscoe on his mum’s blog. My mum says we can interview him later in the year. Maybe I for Interview. But this is what I’ve found out about Degus.

Degus come from Chile originally
they are classed as rodents
they are even more sociable than guinea pigs!
they have long silky coats, grey-brown in colour, and a long, thin tail with a tufted, black tip
they live to about 8 years old, although I think Joshua is older
they are supposed to typically weigh 300 gms. That’s tiny compared with me. I weigh 1500 gms. I haven’t asked Joshua how much he weighs.
they are inquisitive and intelligent and have lots of different squeaks and sounds

Well, that sounds a lot like Joshua to me!

D is also for Death

This weekend was one year since Midge died. That was a horrible evening. Mummy went out to her bird meeting, and while she was away, Midge went all funny. He lived with Percy in the run next to me, where Neville and Roscoe live now. He started twitching and shaking, then he rolled over on his side and kept twitching. It was horrible, because Percy and I could do nothing. Then Mummy came home and said hello to us, saw Midge, picked him up and cuddled him tight, and phoned the vet. Then she took him downstairs and stayed up all night with him, but he died in the morning.

Midge looks out

Bertie and Midge

We were very sad, but she let us sit with his body and say goodbye to him. Actually, I found it very scary and didn’t really want to sit with him, but Percy told me to say goodbye or I’d regret it when I was older, and understood better. I think he was right. I made sure I said goodbye to Percy when he went a month or so later.

I don’t like it when someone dies, but Percy said it’s natural, and everyone dies sometimes. And then we go over the Rainbow Bridge to the place where everybody’s well and happy, and we can be with our friends again.

And Joshua says he understands because all his degu family have died, too. That’s very sad. But he has other friends to keep him company.

So that’s our post for D and next week we’ll do E which might be for exercise. I think Eating would be better.

Have a nice week!

love

Bertie

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.

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.

Colman does not do silly hats

Roscoe with Santa hat

Neville

Biggles

Bertie

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

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

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

George's Guinea Pig World

Tag: atozchallenge

H is for Holidays, Hampshire and Hay

F is for Four May Legends

These are our FOUR May legends

E is for Easter Eggs

D is for Degu, and for Midge’s anniversary

D is for Degu!

D is also for Death

Christmas comes twice a year

Neville and I had a bath