Ms Fifikins

My posts don’t often carry disclaimers, but this post contains images that may upset some viewers… Yeah! There is blood, there is gore, and there is a mushy bit!

(Hat tip @ Jane on facebook!)

Looks like they had a lot of fun! No idea who they are, but I do hope they have a long and happy life together!

No one has been looking for gerbera urine in the last month. But I have had a few interesting searches performed. Here are a random sample:

• Rum and Raisin Daisy (and obviousy they didn’t find what they wanted so they searched again with Rum and Raisins Daisy.)
• Who the hell is Sarah Palin (I hope my blog told you all you need to know!)
• A couple of interesting searches, in quotation marks, for specific people from Twitter! (Yes, you!)
• Cages for goldfish. Er… ok…
• famous omnivores (oh- does this mean I am?)
• A few pertaining to veganism and oral sex (perhaps others are asking the same question?)
• Several looking for recipes (including blood orange cake and banana muffins)
• And the usual few on pain after tonsillectomy. Yes I still remember it and it was still worse than childbirth!
• Other random words and phrases searched include Fifi, poo, pimp and holes, toads and 100 random facts.

Oh and finally there are several variations on Now I know my ABC. That’s right world, if you don’t know something, google it!

I think i shared this on Twitter a while back. It is rather clever. Kinda wish I was able to vote… Well I was born on the 4th of July…

The gorgeous Kelly has shared her fear of spiders. I hate mice. And rats. Well wild rats coz I <3 Daisy and Pikelet who live in the most stunning mansion in the living room. Oh and we have further pimped it so I need to share more of that too!

But mice! I once had to live in the house of a person who was on trial for child sex offences. It was an interesting and challenging time (My ex was doing the bloke’s job whilst he was on trial and after he was convicted carried on.) When we first arrived at the house we discovered that he kept birds. Not just a couple of budgies in a cage, but over 100 in the back yard. Doves, chooks, bantams, and all sorts of other things too! Of course we had to care for them. Now the ex hates birds. So it was my job to feed and water them. (On the mantelpiece in the lounge room hung his ribbon for ‘Champion Cock’ at a bird show. Noice!)

I didn’t mind birds that much, but the numbers in a rather small yard meant there was lots of noise and the smell was interesting! There were a few eggs, including some that laid fertilised eggs which hatched and then the little ones died. You get that. But feeding them was a challenge. They would come for you and want seed NOW! So I was anxious heading out to feed them. Then one of the first days I was there I put the small tin into the sack of feed and got the fright of my life when I basically pulled out a tin of mice, some of which ran up my arm. I screamed. Somehow the birds got fed.

We soon discovered there was a mouse plague. This was in the South Australian mallee and plagues were not unheard of. So we set traps in the kitchen. Each night we would get at least 2 mice, often more. They love peanut butter I discovered. Then one night when I was there alone I head a trap go off. Then I heard a tapping noise. I didn’t think much of it until I went into the kitchen to find a mouse that was only half trapped by a mouse trap. There was no way I was going to set it free, but I didn’t want to see it suffer either. So after hyperventilating for a few minutes I decided to drown it. I grabbed a bucket and went back to the kitchen, but the offending mouse was gone. Now I was sure it had a broken leg or two at least, and I am not sure how it got away, but I slept in fear that this mouse would come back for me.

After that I was always afraid of emptying the mouse traps and whenever I saw one I screamed. I still do. Up here I have seen wild rats which scare the bejebus out of me, but I am getting better after having Daisy and Pikelet. When MIML™ told me on our first date that he kept rats as pets, I tried to keep a shocked look off my face and didn’t know what to say. The first time I visited his place and he introduced me I was glad I wasn’t wearing the white outfit I wore on our first date as I almost shat myself when he got Pikelet out of her cage and handed her to me. Of course I didn’t really speak up- I told him I was scared of mice and didn’t like wild rats, but Pikelet was cool! She nuzzled under my arm and liked being stroked. Then she sat on my shoulder and I found out that she and Daisy are rather cool!

Not sure how I would go with pet mice though!

According to my Google Analytics, some people in the USA actually read my rantings. I know! Who would have thunk it! I actually hope you have seen the following, if not then think about it. Those of us in other places take heed too.

And for Aussies who complain that we have compulsory voting, remember it is only compulsory to turn up to a polling place on election day. What you do with your vote is up to you. No one stands there with a gun at your head and tells you who to vote for. Democracy means choice. Hey- some of my best friends vote Liberal

1. Fiona and her Mama, 2. rare steak, 3. Forest of stone, Tintern Abbey, Monmouthshire, 4. Waiting For A Kiss?, 5. Colin Firth revisited, 6. The ancient pleasure of a cuppa, 7. Tokyo City Sunset, 8. Berry & Lavender Crème Brûlée, 9. Lift attendant, 10. Free, 11. Untitled, 12. for Fifikins

You should know by now that I can never resist a good meme! The gorgeous Monnie at Vanilla Silence posted this on her blog today and I am borrowing the concept! Please go ahead and do your own too, I know you want to…

Go to http://www.bighugelabs.com/flickr and create a mosaic using the answers from these questions. Take your answer to Flickr and search for it. Pick an image from the first page of search results, put it into the mosaic maker and post your results!

1. What is your first name? Fiona
2. What is your favorite food? Steak (well apart from chocolate and sushi!)
3. What high school did you go to? Tintern CEGGS
4. What is your favorite color? Green
5. Who is your celebrity crush? Colin Firth (I love a bit of facial hair too!)
6. Favorite drink? Tea (it was a toss-up gin aficionados!)
7. Dream vacation? Japan
8. Favorite dessert? Crème Brûlée
9. What you want to be when you grow up? A Lift Attendant! Going up! (Well it is what I wanted to be!)
10. What do you love most in life? Freedom
11. One Word to describe you? Procrastinator
12. Look up my flickr name and found something someone dedicated to me – Thanks Ali!

Found wordle which creates word clouds. Here’s one from recent posts here: