Tuesday 16 October 2012

Here Come the Girls

Lady Sunshine and The Lassie stayed over last night. Lady Sunshine is doing a counselling course on a Tuesday, and has less driving to do if she stays over with us on a Monday night. (LOS misses her, but it means that he can eat fish on Monday nights. Lady Sunshine can't stand even the smell of it. She must be more of a squirrel than an otter.)

The Lassie has just come back from a holiday in New York with her sister, and loved it, especially Central Park. I have fond memories of it myself, from when Tony and I were in New York for the launch of Mistmantle in the USA. The sweet girl brought us back some American chocolate, so we all sat around and ate Hershey's Kisses, which none of us had ever had before. They are delicious. It was an evening when the men were outnumbered 3-2, which doesn't often happen.

As often does happen when we all get together, we started discussing favourite animals. Following her visit to Central Park Zoo, The Lassie adores red pandas. The Sunshines recently went to Yorkshire Wildlife Park, and Lady Sunshine wants a ring-tailed lemur.

For me, it's still the red squirrel. You can't own one, you can just watch them in the wild and admire them.

And you? Faourite animal, anybody?

4 comments:

Nels said...

Otter! :D

sciencefreak12 said...

Well, i love meany kinds of animals ( even the microscopic water bear) Otters,squirrels,ferrets etc.

margaret mcallister said...

Nels - good man!

Sciencefreak - how are the ferrets? And how can you love a water bear?!

sciencefreak12 said...

Our ferrets are good but old. They are still playing etc. And Winter ( out little albino girl ) loves pancakes, little trash rat (jk) Dekota is doing great. Still our sweet boy.

Water bears are cute because they look like a cute, hugabal bear with many legs. They look sort of alien like. But, they are amazing. Very adaptable little organisms. Very interesting. They are also harmless vegetarians that live around water. Read up on them.