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| A _L_ P... |
 Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 4:18 am |
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His owners are on holiday. At the last minute Mr Owner remembered that
though he'd arranged for the chickens and the cat to be fed and watered
he had forgotten that 'Enery 'ad to be shut up at night, pun
intentional, so as not to annoy the neighbours. So e's 'ere. Three of
them in 3 cat carry cages spend the night in the tool-room. Thick walls....
What I'd like to know is what breed is he, or is he a mongrel? He's big
and white like a white leghorn, big red |VVV| comb, but his tail and
around his neck he's pale grey. Any suggestions so I can google for
pictures and see if they look like him?
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| Ginny... |
| Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2009 3:51 am |
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A _L_ P wrote:
[quote:75749d38ef]His owners are on holiday. At the last minute Mr Owner remembered that
though he'd arranged for the chickens and the cat to be fed and watered
he had forgotten that 'Enery 'ad to be shut up at night, pun
intentional, so as not to annoy the neighbours. So e's 'ere. Three of
them in 3 cat carry cages spend the night in the tool-room. Thick
walls....
What I'd like to know is what breed is he, or is he a mongrel? He's big
and white like a white leghorn, big red |VVV| comb, but his tail and
around his neck he's pale grey. Any suggestions so I can google for
pictures and see if they look like him?
A L P
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Can't help with the rooster breed but how did you fair with the 'quake??
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| A _L_ P... |
| Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2009 4:34 pm |
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Ginny wrote:
[quote:0d66e9b5b3]A _L_ P wrote:
His owners are on holiday. At the last minute Mr Owner remembered
that though he'd arranged for the chickens and the cat to be fed and
watered he had forgotten that 'Enery 'ad to be shut up at night, pun
intentional, so as not to annoy the neighbours. So e's 'ere. Three
of them in 3 cat carry cages spend the night in the tool-room. Thick
walls....
What I'd like to know is what breed is he, or is he a mongrel? He's
big and white like a white leghorn, big red |VVV| comb, but his tail
and around his neck he's pale grey. Any suggestions so I can google
for pictures and see if they look like him?
A L P
Can't help with the rooster breed but how did you fair with the 'quake??
Thanks for the enquiry, Ginny, but for me it was quake? What quake?[/quote:0d66e9b5b3]
It was astonishing to learn that it had been the same magnitude as the
1931 Napier earthquake. On the radio now it says the Earthquake
Commission has received 513 claims for damage resulting from it.
Nothing major.
I was sitting here at the computer, felt what "could" have been a small
movement and the sash weights in the windows started banging
rhythmically. Was it an earthquake, or was there a cat on the
windowsill banging on the window, "Let me in, let me in NOW!"? By then
I was in the doorway prepared to adopt foetal position but went to the
door to check. No cat and no sudden gust of wind. I turned around and
now the lights in the passage and bedroom were swaying. Back to the
bedroom doorway, couldn't feel anything, realised that the lights would
keep on swaying for quite a while after the earth stopped its movement
and returned to what I'd been doing.
Yesterday morning I spoke with 2 friends who live on the flat, one of
them on the lowest flattest part of Dunedin where the soil is
essentially grit, gravel and "small particulate matter" as we say
colloquially around these parts - the kind of thing that, were there an
earthquake of sufficient effect and close enough to have a thixotropic
effect, would turn into moosh, like taking a bowl of leftover thick
gravy out of the fridge and stirring it.
Both those people had experienced much more intense movement. She asked
"What about your cats, were they on the bed, didn't they move?" because
hers had suddenly scarpered - my 3 bed-cats were comatose as usual -
which woke her up. (She's a lark, I'm an owl, we have mutually
contactable times in part of the day when one is most likely to be busy,
outside... who ever said friendships are easy? :-} ? )
He had felt it more than either of us down in gravy-land. His mind
raced: prioritise! Grabbed the heavy and much treasured pottery items
off high shelves... Said yesterday his big jam-packed book-cases ought
to be screwed to the walls but they stay in place by the grace of God
and the weight of the books.... I said one day they wouldn't and he'd
be found crushed and brahn-bread as we say colloquially in our Mockney
moments rahnd 'here, and that was probably how he'd like to go.
Then an email from the lark's daughter in Christchurch: "Did you feel
the earthquake last night? It was real strong here, my house was rolling
like it was a boat at sea. Bloody scary. " She's on the Christchurch
flat - almost all of Christchurch IS flat - and again it's that
filled-in stuff that collects in low places, washed down from the rock
that first formed the hunks that stick out from the sea, the islands we
now know as New Zealand.
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| Ginny... |
| Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2009 8:54 pm |
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A _L_ P wrote:
[quote:de85a56fdb]Ginny wrote:
A _L_ P wrote:
His owners are on holiday. At the last minute Mr Owner remembered
that though he'd arranged for the chickens and the cat to be fed and
watered he had forgotten that 'Enery 'ad to be shut up at night, pun
intentional, so as not to annoy the neighbours. So e's 'ere. Three
of them in 3 cat carry cages spend the night in the tool-room. Thick
walls....
What I'd like to know is what breed is he, or is he a mongrel? He's
big and white like a white leghorn, big red |VVV| comb, but his tail
and around his neck he's pale grey. Any suggestions so I can google
for pictures and see if they look like him?
A L P
Can't help with the rooster breed but how did you fair with the 'quake??
Thanks for the enquiry, Ginny, but for me it was quake? What quake?
It was astonishing to learn that it had been the same magnitude as the
1931 Napier earthquake. On the radio now it says the Earthquake
Commission has received 513 claims for damage resulting from it. Nothing
major.
I was sitting here at the computer, felt what "could" have been a small
movement and the sash weights in the windows started banging
rhythmically. Was it an earthquake, or was there a cat on the
windowsill banging on the window, "Let me in, let me in NOW!"? By then
I was in the doorway prepared to adopt foetal position but went to the
door to check. No cat and no sudden gust of wind. I turned around and
now the lights in the passage and bedroom were swaying. Back to the
bedroom doorway, couldn't feel anything, realised that the lights would
keep on swaying for quite a while after the earth stopped its movement
and returned to what I'd been doing.
Yesterday morning I spoke with 2 friends who live on the flat, one of
them on the lowest flattest part of Dunedin where the soil is
essentially grit, gravel and "small particulate matter" as we say
colloquially around these parts - the kind of thing that, were there an
earthquake of sufficient effect and close enough to have a thixotropic
effect, would turn into moosh, like taking a bowl of leftover thick
gravy out of the fridge and stirring it.
Both those people had experienced much more intense movement. She asked
"What about your cats, were they on the bed, didn't they move?" because
hers had suddenly scarpered - my 3 bed-cats were comatose as usual -
which woke her up. (She's a lark, I'm an owl, we have mutually
contactable times in part of the day when one is most likely to be busy,
outside... who ever said friendships are easy? :-} ? )
He had felt it more than either of us down in gravy-land. His mind
raced: prioritise! Grabbed the heavy and much treasured pottery items
off high shelves... Said yesterday his big jam-packed book-cases ought
to be screwed to the walls but they stay in place by the grace of God
and the weight of the books.... I said one day they wouldn't and he'd
be found crushed and brahn-bread as we say colloquially in our Mockney
moments rahnd 'here, and that was probably how he'd like to go.
Then an email from the lark's daughter in Christchurch: "Did you feel
the earthquake last night? It was real strong here, my house was rolling
like it was a boat at sea. Bloody scary. " She's on the Christchurch
flat - almost all of Christchurch IS flat - and again it's that
filled-in stuff that collects in low places, washed down from the rock
that first formed the hunks that stick out from the sea, the islands we
now know as New Zealand.
A L P
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Oooh scary! Only ever felt one or two very slight tremors in my life and
didn't like them one bit. Glad to hear you're okay and no major damage.
Sounds like your friends are in worse positions if a real big one
happens so hope that it the last for a good while.
Take care.
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Ginny - In West Australia |
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