The best adventure so far

Just after Easter Foxette and I got to visit BBW with the Fox. It was one hell of an adventure and you can see my pictures here.

What can I say?

Easter Monday
We got up at the crack of dawn and went on the Big Choo Choo thing up to Newcastle to visit BBW. The first thing we did was go and get a bottle of brown!

After we'd settled into the hotel we headed out and about again on something called the Metro which BBW was very proud of (until we got in the same carriage as the Bank Holiday 'revellers' and then got stuck outside Jesmond station for longer than we'd have liked). We also walked for miles, went paddling, went on some seriously horrible twisty turny things one of which even the Fox didn't like; the Waltzer was particularly good, though BBW is convinced that it didn't use to spin quite so fast when he was a cub - shame we didn't get a picture of the G force effect on his face.(Ribbit, Ribbit!). We then drank fizz and ate chips on the beach and I can tell you after all the sea air we were all absolutely shattered.

Tuesday
This is the day we went to Beamish. I really learned a lot about my heritage that day. I went down a drift mine, sat on a netty, saw lots of big steamy things (not the netty! they don't get used anymore) and saw some very disturbing pictures of frogs with their insides showing in the big barbaric building thing which they called a school. Harumph - totally unnecessary. Fox and BBW took me out once they realised the extent of the trauma I was suffering. After that and a hectic trip back to Newcastle in the rattling bumpy thing I was bushed so I spent the rest of the night in watching the snooker.

Wednesday
This was the last day we all spent together. Fox got all excited about something called Lakeland Plastics and spent a fortune on CDs that she wanted but didn't need and we all went for an italian meal before Fox and Foxette headed back down to the big smoke.

So, its me and BBW for a while now. He's sourcing another frogcam and is planning lots of new outfits for me - I do like to dress up ... I'll keep you posted with more adventures soon.

A new friend!

I got back to my roots tonight and accompanied the Fox in the bathroom body wash department. I'm a veteran on the old bath activity, but tonight was my first shower. Not only did the Fox give me my own shower cap (not that I've got any hair to get mussed up of course) but she introduced me to my new bathroom friend. He's a bit flat and doesn't move much, but check out his swimming cozzy! Not as classic as my speedos but definitely eye catching! Haven't got a name for him yet but I'm sure something will be devised at some point.

Things!

Everything is a thing. And in the Fox's den (and surrounding environs) there are the following things:

The buzzy thing (electric tooth brush)
The wizzy thing (washing machine)
The whirly thing (carwash)
The ** beepy thing (alarm clock)
The burny thing (toaster)
The smally sucky thing (kitchen extractor hood)
and my new favourite thing ...
The big sucky thing.

Me and Foxette got to ride on it when BBW was doing some hoovering for the Fox the other day, and we enjoyed it so much that he rigged up the seat and now we're doing the cleaning for Fox and getting to bomb round the flat on the big sucky thing via remote control! Cool!

Yet another use for my helmet - Foxette should have one too I reckon, just to be safe!

As a bit of an antidote I've been introduced to Tolkein and am gradually working my way through the Lord of the Rings. I've already finished "The Fellowship of the Ring" and am half way through "The Two Towers" - check out the snazzy reading glasses BBW made for me. I have to wear them whenever I'm reading and also when I'm watching the TV - though I do find there's not much on the telly really - reading is more my thing.

Fox's friend George was a bit worried about me last night though. a) she spotted that she and Fox had gone out and left me reading in the dark so she is now concerned that I'm suffering from eyestrain and b) she felt that whilst Tolkein was worthy reading material, maybe some Jackie Collins would have been a little less 'heavy' for a Saturday night's entertainment. Fox isn't so sure about that and she's sure that BBW wouldn't approve of the content matter, especially as he banned me from finishing "Memoirs of a Geisha" ...

Anyway, me and George had a good old bop to Joss Stone and after a drop of pink champagne which she'd brought to christen the Fox's new flat she taught me a new way to sleep on my front with a gap between my legs ... Seems to be important to her, something to do with leaving a space for the cats to squeeze in bed with her. Strange!

I think I look particularly studious - don't you?