Good morning everyone; greetings from a miserably grey, rainy Ireland. Grania here again to post today’s Hili (and friends) as PCC(E) is otherwise occupied for now. Fortunately, we have a panoply of advice and deep thoughts from our four-footed cousins to help cheer us up for the working week.
Hili: Come on.
Cyrus: Just a moment, I can’t ascertain who was here.
In Polish:
Hili: Chodź już.
Cyrus: Zaraz, nie mogę się zorientować, kto tu był.
And Leon is being very regal, if a little fanciful this morning. It suits his serious demeanor.
Leon: It’s me, Leon. Not any stupid princess on a pea.
Reader Anne-Marie sent in a photograph of a squirrel.
Shakespeare once wrote: “The common curse of mankind, – folly and ignorance (…)”
And I would add “not feeding pet squirrels”.
Reader Taskin sent in a picture of the beautiful Gus, with this advice to Jerry, who was waiting for his delayed flight.
Okay, so when they’re about to open the gate, Gus wants you to line up like this and then RUN!
Now, onward and upwards!
Embrace the grey! Grey squirrel, Hili has a sort of grey-ish coat… & grey skies keep out that nasty sunshine! Perfect for pale north Europeans like me with MC1R!
🙂
Mendeleev in the Google Doodle today
https://www.google.co.uk/webhp?hl=en
PS UK readers who like to take pics of invertebrates & send them to PCC[E] should enter the British Wildlife Photography competition –
https://www.bwpawards.org/?platform=hootsuite
The squirrel in the photo does not look like not-fed.
Yes, that’s “Mr. Squirrel” (also known as “le petit ami”, and he gets plenty of noms.
Cyrus is simply doing what all dogs do to stay informed, reading the pee mail.
better information than the one you get when you knee mail in a church!
What do you think of this new evidence for directed evolution toward increasing complexity.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/03/080317171027.htm
And in other news on the BBC today, Bacteria “see” like tiny eyeballs.
Which of course must be irreducibly complex.
It’s the start of the Year of the Monkey, so here’s wishing a Happy New Year, good health, happiness and prosperity to PCC(E), Grania, fellow readers and their loved ones.
Gong Hey Fat Choy, Gong Xi Fa Chai!
http://goodcharacters.com/newsletters/gong-xi-fa-cai.html
If it was my dog, the caption would read:
“Just a moment, a deer left a delicious treat!”
Great Gus pose!