The happy place in my head is unfortunately getting lots of use these days.
Tag: ducks
Be warned
As a clear indication of all the ducks given today, I am wearing my insanity prawn t-shirt.
You know it’s wet when…
… there are ducks waddling around your lawn looking for a good home.
WWMMD?
For various reasons, I’m having a bad mental health day/week/month/quarter. I wondered out loud to Katy, “what would Moomin Mama do”? She said she’d probably give me a cigarette and a special drink. Yeah, that’d work right now.
How I’m feeling at the moment
Duck Wearing Bow-Tie Walks Into Pub, Drinks Pint, Fights Dog, Loses
This. This is an actual headline. This is why I love England.
From the article:
A bow-tie wearing duck has been injured in a drunken pub brawl with a local dog in Chulmleigh, Devon. The booze-loving bird, affectionately named Star, was enjoying a pint in The Old Courthouse Inn with his handler, Barrie Hayman, when Hayman’s canine Meggie sparked a bar brawl. Star was left with injuries to his beak after the fight.
“Star pushed his luck too far and Meggie snapped – splitting Star’s bottom beak right down the middle,” Hayman, 69, told the Cheddar Valley Gazette. “He gave her a stare, then promptly stood on her back. It was not pretty and not nice. We were so scared we would lose Star. He had to be rushed to the vets and go under anaesthetic, which is always risky and could go either way with ducks and other small animals. Thankfully our Star is a tough cookie and it looks like he came out okay.”
Hayman has cared for Star ever since he was a chick, carrying him around in his pocket. Once the duckling grew up, he developed a taste for real ale and started following his owner to the pub. “He just won’t leave me and so we go everywhere together,” Hayman said. “I’ve not trained him to follow me. He just seems to like it and he is one fantastic duck. He loves to come to the pub, where everyone loves him. He is such a personality and attracts so much attention.”
Curse you, timer lights!
The bathroom lights at work on a timer/motion-sensor. Every so often, you get caught with your pants around your ankles and the lights go off. That wouldn’t be a problem if THERE WASN’T A 30-SECOND WINDOW WHERE THE LIGHTS REFUSE TO COME BACK ON!!! And you’re in a stall, waving your arms frantically waiting for the lights to come back on before someone else comes in.
How I’m feeling today
Also, I’ve realized that it’s been 2 days this week that I’ve not uploaded a post. This is not good :(
Allergy season is upon us
huzzah! huzzah!
One more thing to be stupendipulously happy about.
Now that’s original
One of the cool, quirky aspects of Morges is that it has a large population of wild-ish ducks. As we were leaving for school / work this morning, we saw a pair of them just chillin’ on the lawn.