That might be it for summer…

On October 15, 2018October 14, 2018 By geordieroscoeIn Happenings3 Comments

It was really nice last week. Each day when Mam came back from her golf (it’s always golf, we think), she put us out in the garden for a wee while, even when it was nearly dark. It wasn’t really dark. The darkest day we only went out for a few minutes, but it was good for a leg stretch and some grass.

Selfie with Mam

Me on Mam’s lap after the bath

Neville’s selfie with Mam

Thursday Neville and me had a bath. We don’t like having baths, but it’s good afterwards. My hair goes soft and silky, and so does Neville’s. His bottom stops smelling riper than is polite, too. We get an extra long cuddle (I don’t like long cuddles) and get a warm blowy noisy thing held over us before we go for our run. It does make you feel nice and warm, though.

Saturday was great. Mummy was not in golf clothes, and we went out into the garden runs at lunchtime. That’s earlier than we’ve had all summer long, I think. The runs had moved onto fresh grass. We made good work of that, I can tell you. Mam made good work of planting seeds in the veggie patch with the chard and winter lettuce.

Us on Saturday

Bertie on Thursday

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

There was a lot of air blowing about, almost as warm as that hair drying thing Mam used on Thursday. We were in a sheltered part, between the plant that’s escaped from its pen and the wall, where there’s lots of grass. Bertie was beside us. He’d moved only a little way, next to where he’d been before. And the other end was Biggles.

Mam said to eat as much as we liked because we wouldn’t be coming out much longer. How right she was! Sunday was wet as could be and Mam said it was cold out, too. Today Mam’s gone out early in her golf uniform again, but she’s got extra layers on. It’s funny how she manages to get extra layers of coat on. We just fluff up our hair a bit more.

Mam said to send a special note to Auntie Noelle, because she’s been suffering from the hurricane, which is even windier than our wind. That must be really something, Auntie Noelle. And also we’re still thinking solidly for Uncle Mo, and hope the treatment’s okay and the human vet people are looking after you well. Love and kisses from us.

And love and kisses to you too.

Roscoe xxx

Birthday cake and Gotcha party

On August 20, 2018August 19, 2018 By geordieroscoeIn Birthdays2 Comments

Way-aye! Roscoe here, full of Gotcha cake, or was it birthday party? I’m not sure, and I don’t think Mam was either.

Anyroad, yesterday we had a party with cake. Me and Neville have been here a whole year. I have to say, I like it here. I’ve got used to the funny way Mam talks, and Bertie and Biggles too, for that matter.

Nev and I like our cage and the time we spend in the garden, especially with the blue tunnel to play in. And the morning routine is good too: Nev gets a cuddle and some cucumber (six pieces, he says, cos he counts), then gets to go on the floor for a run, with Biggles, who’s already been through the cuddle-cucumber bit. Then I get a cuddle and six pieces of cucumber, if I can’t fool Mam into giving me more. Then I join Nev on the floor and Biggles goes back in his cage.

Then Bertie goes and gets cuddled and finishes up the cucumber, and when he comes into the kitchen I get picked up and put back, then Nev joins me. Sometimes he stays a while to talk to Bertie, but I don’t like him doing that. Makes me cross to think Bertie has been trying to cuddle up to him. No matter, I forgive him after a bit. Then we get our pellets, and then Mam gets the breakfast from the garden or the fridge or a mixture of the two.

After we’ve eaten, it’s time for a snooze. And maybe we’ll go outside on the grass in the afternoon.

Then sometimes, like this weekend, we do other things later in the day, like have parties. The cake was delicious, although Nev was too busy with grass to start with. The grass has grown. I think we should be out there to trim it for you every day, Mam.

Percy’s still sad and his lump’s back

On April 30, 2018July 29, 2018 By bertie bootsIn garden, Health4 Comments

Hello everybody, it’s Bertie here. I’m back!

Percy didn’t feel like blogging today. He’s okay, he’s eating, which he wasn’t at the start of last week. Mummy is much happier about him. He’s on morning and evening meds because his lump has come back. It’s moved though. It’s now behind his jaw. I can’t tell the difference but Percy says he can. Mummy can feel it too.

We miss Midge. He was fun to live next door to, because I could tease him. Percy’s not so easy to tease. Mummy says I shouldn’t tease anyway because he’s not well. But Percy’s missing Midge, even though they did a lot of bickering recently. Percy says Midge probably wasn’t well and we didn’t realise. Okay.

First day out

Third day out

Bertie sits with Biggles

First day out

We haven’t been out in the garden this week. Mummy says it’s been cold and wet. But it was sunny one day when we had visitors. Mummy was pleased because it helped the house and garden look nice. Mummy’s been clearing all the boxes from our room, and tidying up her desk and our things. It looks pretty good now, I can tell you.

Apart from that, I’m looking forward to going outside again, because I like the feel of real grass on my feet. The birds all sing at us too, and tell us off if there’s something they want in our run. A squirrel came and swung on the tube that hangs on a post nearby. She was nearly as big as us, but had a long bushy tail. I thought it was very clever the way she used her hands to take the pellets from the tube. I just eat mine with my mouth, which she did too, but she also put her hand in the hole and pulled out some to put in her mouth. Maybe I should try that. I’ll let you know how it goes.

Apparently today’s the anniversary of the Great Escape from Jersey. Percy says Kevin used to talk about it. He came with Colman to live here and a lot of other piggies went all over the place. I think someone still lives with Auntie Doris and Uncle Bob. Here’s a photo of Kevin and Colman when Col was getting old.

And here they are on the day they arrived here. Percy has that white and red thing in his cage with him at present. It’s to keep him company.

Colman and Kevin 30.4.12 — Colman and Kevin April 30 2012

I met Roscoe and Neville last week

On August 28, 2017July 29, 2018 By bertie bootsIn garden1 Comment

Hi! Bertie here! It’s been a busy week for Mummy but at least when she went out early she gave us lots of food, and most days she came back in time to give us a nice run in the garden.

I’ve met the two new boys, Roscoe and Neville. Roscoe is white, and quite big, although not as big as Midge (nobody in the world is as big as Midge – although Mummy’s taller). Neville looks big but he isn’t, he’s just very hairy. Midge says he looks like Dylan from the front and Dougall from the back and he’s as shy as Dougall. That doesn’t mean a thing to me. Percy says Midge is right, though. Oscar says Midge is right as well, and Oscar hardly ever agrees with Midge.

Here are lots of pictures of us in the garden. Mummy has some moving pictures too, which she’ll tell you about later.

Midge in the sun

Roscoe looks

Bertie at the bar

Midge appears

Percy catches the sun

Oscar meets Roscoe

Neville in the shade

Biggles

Roscoe in the shade

Q for Quiet #AtoZChallenge

On April 19, 2017February 22, 2017 By PercyIn a to z challenge18 Comments

Hello and welcome to George’s Guinea Pig World. I’m Percy, and I run this place with Kevin. George set it up in 2009, which is before I was born. I live in a nice cage next to Oscar, and his brother Midge lives next to Kevin.

Our A to Z theme is “Our Favourite Things”

Q is for Quiet

We have a nice quiet home. It is more noisy in the morning, because the music machine comes on in the kitchen at seven, which is usually when Mummy comes downstairs and starts doing things. The music is generally nice. It’s something called Classic FM. We like it, but it goes off later when we’re all back in our runs after cuddle time and our run around the kitchen, so we can eat our breakfast and snooze in peace.

Also in the morning, during cuddle times, Mummy has a moving picture box on in the corner of the cuddle room. That sometimes has people talking, and sometimes it has ticking noises and small bursts of music. Sometimes it has loud noises, too. Most of the time it’s not too noisy, though.

The rest of the day is pretty quiet. If the door to the garden is open we’ll hear the birds singing, and sometimes we hear people moving about next door, or noisy traffic on the road at the front. If Mummy’s in, she’ll be upstairs next to Kevin and Midge, working. Apparently she sits tapping away on this keyboard all morning and most of the evening. I wouldn’t like to do that. Doing these A to Z posts is hard work. I’d rather stick to one a week. But she’s not noisy, unless she has to stop and talk into her handset, or sometimes she reads whole books out loud to her computer. That’s when she’s doing something called editing. Kevin told me about it. She makes lots of tutting noises to herself then, too.

I spend quite a lot of time sleeping during the day, until I feel ready to have a little run around and a bite to eat. Mummy sometimes feels like running around and having a bite to eat too, and then she comes and talks to Oscar and me, and gives my head a scritch or Oscar a smooth. She knows what we like best!

And very soon, we’ll be going out in the garden to eat grass. That’s usually quiet, except for flying things overhead and the birds singing and rumbles of machinery in the distance.

Do you have a quiet life?

G for Grass #AtoZChallenge

On April 8, 2017April 2, 2017 By PercyIn a to z challenge5 Comments

Hello and welcome to George’s Guinea Pig World. I’m Percy, and I run this place with Kevin. George set it up in 2009, which is before I was born. I live with Bertie & Biggles in a nice cage next to Oscar, and his brother Midge lives next to Kevin.

Our A to Z theme is “Our Favourite Things”

G is for Grass

Today we’re talking about grass. Running around on it, eating it, sleeping on it, it doesn’t matter which, we just love grass.

We go out in our runs on the grass when it’s warm enough and we won’t get cold feet. Mummy often puts the runs out around her vegetable patches so we can see what she’s growing for our breakfasts. We are supposed to trim the grass next to the vegetable patches for her, but she says that Dylan and Dougall were never very diligent with that, and they’ve passed on their bad habits to us. Kevin’s very good at edges, though.

Out in the garden with Dougall, Dylan, Humphrey and Victor — August in the garden with Dougall and Dylan

Apparently, once upon a time Mummy used to grow grass in trays for Fred and George, who were the first guinea pigs in George’s Guinea Pig World. Once they got older she just put them outside for a run, and she’s done that ever since. You can see some of our adventures on the grass on our Youtube Playlist.

I wonder if you’ll be able to see this one, with Fred running around. He’s only 2 here. That was in 2009, when George started this blog.

We’ll be doing H on Monday, and Kevin will take over for the week. I’ll be back the week after!

George's Guinea Pig World

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