Thursday, October 18, 2007

From the Blog that Likes to Say Aaaah...

Cop this lot. Personally I think they should be wearing little knitted coats...
Posted by Nige at 10:09 am

12 comments:

  1. Big Chip DaleOctober 18, 2007 11:22 am

    Inspired material, Nige. I'm going to shave my nephew's hampster and send you the pictures. This is clearly what this blog has been missing.

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  2. NigeOctober 18, 2007 11:35 am

    Yes and it should get Bryan good and annoyed. Look forward to seeing those pix - I recommend the Gilette Fusion (Rodent Edition).

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  3. Big Chip DaleOctober 18, 2007 11:57 am

    I'm not a man whose given to gushing with sentiment but can I say that it's so good to finally meet a man who shares my enthusiasm for shaving rodents.

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  4. AnonymousOctober 18, 2007 3:21 pm

    It's all very touching, this male bonding over cute little animals, but don't you think you should form some sort of support group ? You could call it Of Mice and Men
    J Cheever Loophole

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  5. NigeOctober 18, 2007 3:46 pm

    It's a very special man thing, Cheever - and here's one for you, Chip...

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  6. Big Chip DaleOctober 18, 2007 3:56 pm

    Nige, you are a true gentleman. Bryan would never be so thoughtful, even after I praised him for the picture of him wearing his cat hat.

    For various reasons, I've been in tears most of the day, but that has just made things right again.

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  7. AnonymousOctober 18, 2007 4:00 pm

    Ah, the cute guinea pigs. I can practically smell them across the blogosphere. My eldest brother had a menagerie in our garage when I was a kid. He had: guinea pigs, gerbils, hamsters, snakes, turtles, and a big white rat. The big white rat was very smart and knew how to unlock his cage door. He marauded, usually at night, terrorizing the other critters. Once, when the female hamster had new babies, she chattered at him angrily when he stuck his nose into her cage to sniff them (I think he wanted to eat them). My brother (now an anthropologist) was watching this behavior and got to see the enraged hamster charge the big rat: He (the rat, not my brother) bit off her arm. She then ate her babies. Ever after she was a lonely one-armed hamster.

    Oh, God. It was nature red in tooth and claw out in our garage. The white rat outlived everyone and turned yellow from urinating on himself. Then my mother found a snakeskin but no snake and decided Bill had to get rid of the menagerie.

    Ah, childhood......

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  8. NigeOctober 18, 2007 4:11 pm

    God yes Susan - keeping pets (and surviving in a school playground) teach you all you need to know about life. Especially if you've got a killer white rat like that one.
    Keep up the pet talk, everybody - it will enrage the Master when he returns...

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  9. NigeOctober 18, 2007 4:19 pm

    Talking of guinea pigs, my own pet cavy - an exceptionally tame and affectionate semi-albino who, from certain angles, bore a striking resemblance to Harold MacMillan - was the subject of the first piece I ever had in print, in the school magazine. Really it's been downhill ever since...

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  10. Big Chip DaleOctober 18, 2007 4:24 pm

    Unfortunately, Nige, I'm with the Master when it comes to pets. I've never owned one in my life. I do like to wear hampster, though, and gerbil also feels good against my skin.

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  11. NigeOctober 18, 2007 4:34 pm

    But how about this, Chip? Could any man resist?

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  12. Big Chip DaleOctober 18, 2007 5:47 pm

    What's the other pig doing? Ah, I see... So then, Nige. Pig porn is part of your plan to get this blog raided by the police before Bryan gets back? Admirable. I suppose the anti-pig porn detectives are already at Heathrow with their rubber gloves and extra long fingers?

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