Monday, October 10, 2011

Some beaver shots

We went away for the weekend to a hotel made of wood.  I saw a bear. I went in a canoe. I did not die.  I went to a Buckwheat Pancake festival, and stuffed one with a sausage.


I fulfilled a life-long ambition and saw a beaver (called Carlo) -  thanks to a magnificent Beaver Safari, the enjoyment of which was marred only by a ghastly German woman with gigantic teeth running through the undergrowth in incomprehensible trousers.

The French-Canadian veterinary research histopathologist with whom I share my life (and fleas) was coerced into driving action by an ancient trapper in a hat covered in Fleurs-de-Lys.

Trapper: Can you drive a jeep?
Pathologist: Yes.
Trapper: Good. I have 14 Spaniards. I will take them. You will take the Germans and the Canadians.

Here are some photographs. You may like them. You may not. Fingers crossed!












8 comments:

Thesaurus said...

The 'art' is magnificent.

Z said...

I like them and I'm quite desperately jealous. I want to go on a Beaver Safari.

Johnners said...

I liked the one with the water and trees reflected in it very much! Nice to see you back.

WV = bakeesse. Am now thinking even more about cakes...

Megan said...

I am impressed you got the German woman to stop and pose, although she is a bit more monochromatic than I expected.

Also, I think I really, really need to purchase that most excellent painting. Then I need to give it to my sister for Christmas. Then I need to tell her that if she loves me she will hang it over her bed.

Alison Cross said...

I love the art. It's very 70s porn...in fact, isn't that Big John Holmes?

Ali x

Icy Mt. said...

My enjoyment of the sausage stuff pancake was distracted by the injured finger holding it. Have you tried to dismember the SH-CF-CVRH again? Or did you just shut it in a card door?

Icy Mt. said...

Dearest Monkey,
Great podcast with an interview with Steve Hackett of the Genesis.
http://bestradioyouhaveneverheard.com/

Anonymous said...

I miss the Non-Working Monkey. Where could she be? Surely not busy working?

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