Just a smattering of random animals in the News stories that have caught my attention recently.

Goat who believes he's a dog
Hobo the African Pigmy Goat thinks he's a dog. Great BBC News video report of this handsome chap who prefers hanging out with dogs to goats. He begs, greets strangers, wags his tail - he's one happily mixed up dude :-)

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That's odd, very odd! I have been sitting, curled up on the sofa reading, enjoying the sunlight pouring into the room, and only getting up to answer the door (courier), phone and to continously raid the box of fudge in the pantry! The fudge being so delectable that I keep getting back up to go raid the box again, but when I got up this time, I ( Read more... )

Oh gods, I've eaten ALL the bonfire toffee, every scrap. And I only made it last night :O I am a pig! I must be due because I found myself trying to decipher my childish scrawl of decades ago about a creamy toffee recipe. It needs condensed milk which I don't have and I found myself wondering if it would be possible to make it with creamed coconut ( Read more... )

Samhain was nice. My parents came round, I lit the fire and we chatted. When they'd gone I did my own ritual, both indoors and outdoors. Of course they'd come round to escape the hoards of village kids who eat them out of house and home when it comes to trick or treating. Tilly also managed to get absolutely ratted again and rang and texted me ( Read more... )

(copied from my old UKPagan journals)

Well today I actually came off line in order to wrap the christmas presents. This time last year I was intolerant to chocolate, this time for the moment, I'm not. So it was a slightly fatal mistake that made me buy boxes of choccies for some folk. I couldn't get them out of my mind, hmmm, chocolate, no shops ( Read more... )