tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10102945361853420682024-03-05T20:27:46.536-08:00Kolo's worldKolo Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07750346095210131579noreply@blogger.comBlogger261125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1010294536185342068.post-69237692010615882662016-12-05T02:26:00.001-08:002016-12-05T02:26:18.770-08:00South Bank TweetupHi!! We haven't blogged for a while because work has been busy and we haven't been doing much else really except chilling out.<br />
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However, yesterday Ryan Baboon went on a tweet-up. He went instead of Mini-Kolo, because Tulip Jenkins was there and she wanted to meet Ryan. Who knows why!!<br />
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Ryan had to get up early. Not one of his strengths!! He got the ferry to Portsmouth.<br />
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Here he is looking out of the ferry window at the Fishbourne Terminal.<br />
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Ryan had had to get up early, which he is not very keen on, but he found a seat on the ferry where he could have a sleep.<br />
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After sleeping on the ferry and through the car journey, he slept on the District Line train.<br />
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By the time we reached the South Bank Centre Ryan had had enough sleep and he was ready to say hello to Tour Guide Ted and his pals Frank and Theo.<br />
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Ah, now this is a slightly sticky situation. No, Ryan hadn't been arrested. The problem is that because Ryan is much bigger than Mini-Kolo he filled the rucksack and there was no room for Leroy. Now an unforeseen situation was that WPC Evelyn Hall was there and Leroy is really keen on her. Oh dear! Ryan has been studiously avoiding Leroy since he got back. Evelyn is lovely!! I am sure Leroy will get a chance to meet her one day.<br />
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More pals arrived, Tulip Jenkins, Reddy Teddy, BooBoo Bear Grean and Arpad bear with Samson and Deliah and Charlie. Don't they look great in their panda jumpers!!<br />
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Sorry this picture won't stay rotated, not sure why, but anyway, Jezzer Bear had arrived!! Dressed in his great Star Trek gear! Cool guy!!<br />
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We went out to the Christmas market, which was very crowded!! There was beer and food. Baboons are not allowed beer, it makes us behave oddly, but Ryan was not bothered about that, because he got his favourite food, a big Baboon HQ favourite! Macaroni cheese!! Happy Baboon!! That warmed him up.<br />
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After dinner Ryan felt energetic and decided to climb the Christmas trees!! Well he is a baboon!<br />
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Tulip joined him, although she is not a baboon!! She rather likes Ryan.<br />
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After that we had to leave to get our ferry back to the island. As we were leaving Japp Bear arrived, it was nice to meet him but there was no time for pictures. We had a lovely day, it was great to see everyone and to meet Jezzer, Tulip and Arpad for the first time. It was a real honour to meet one of the Emergency Teds, We hope Leroy will get a chance to meet them too as they are major favourites of his.<br />
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There may have been the need for WPC Hall to take action not long after we left. A lot of beer was being drunk and some teds appeared to be heading towards disorderly behaviour. What a good job Evelyn was there, I hope nobody needed the services of Dr Ted!!Kolo Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07750346095210131579noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1010294536185342068.post-79329257228740701752016-09-15T23:56:00.001-07:002016-09-15T23:56:41.033-07:00A most beautiful walkAnother hot day and another walk. I can't think why we have not done this walk recently, it is one of the most beautiful walks on the island and we used to do it often. I think maybe it didn't seem long enough, but we have made it a bit longer. We started at the End of the Line Cafe in Freshwater and walked through Freshwater town and down to Colwell Bay.<br />
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We love the colourful bathing huts there. Everyone has gone to so much trouble to make their bathing hut look nice.<br />
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We walked along to Totland Bay, this is just past Colwell. Harry could see the Needles rocks, but you can't because at that stage visibility was quite poor.<br />
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At Totland Harry indulged in some fish wrestling, this is a strange fish.<br />
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This is a bit fishy!! I am not sure whether Harry's posture here shows whether he has won or lost!!<br />
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Anyway we moved on to Totland Bay.<br />
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This is a lovely bay and again we could see the Needles, and the mainland, but you can't. This was just before the moment when the sun came out and it was suddenly very hot.<br />
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We walked up the road a little way, climbing steeply, and got to the cliff path. There is a woody bit there and we did some climbing.<br />
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We soon found a vantage point to check out the path ahead. We continued along this path until we came out on Headon Warren, which is a bit of a heath-land, and very beautiful.<br />
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There is a lot of interesting wild life and history up there.<br />
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The heath is very beautiful. It is the opposite cliff to Tennyson Down, that we climb very often, but the soil is different and so there is much more growth of bracken and heather here.<br />
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This is the other part of the island where we find heather. We could smell this heather it was beautiful.<br />
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We could see the mainland from here an Hurst Castle. Unfortunately the autumn mist makes it difficult for you to see it.<br />
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Now you can just see the Needles. This is as far as you can go. The view around was lovely. We walked back the same way and had lunch at the End of the Line Cafe.<br />
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Today is very wet and we have achy legs so we may not go too far today. Thank you for reading about our walks. We have had a great holiday, but its back to work on Monday!!Kolo Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07750346095210131579noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1010294536185342068.post-66389731264522972422016-09-15T00:44:00.000-07:002016-09-15T00:44:29.635-07:00A quieter dayOn Tuesday we did such a difficult walk that yesterday we decided to take it a bit easier. We started with a cooked breakfast at the Bembridge Bakery.<br />
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That was delicious. Then we went for a walk at Bembridge. We parked at the Toll Gate cafe and walked on the cliff tops.<br />
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This is a lovely walk, but you have to take the views while you can, the hedges were a bit high for Harry.<br />
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That's a bit more like it, you can see Culver Cliff, which marks the boundary of Sandown Bay. It was very sunny.<br />
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Back at Bembridge, near the Crab and Lobster pub, you get lovely views of the sea.<br />
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Well when I said a quieter day, that didn't include the bit about helping out the coastguard. We always feel they are worth helping.<br />
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Another walk today, in the west of the island. Its another hot day!!Kolo Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07750346095210131579noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1010294536185342068.post-1246372107898089032016-09-14T06:25:00.002-07:002016-09-14T06:25:43.176-07:00A long difficult walkYesterday was a very hot day and we chose to do one of the hardest walks that we do. However, Harry was up for it. We started in the old village at Shanklin and the church.<br />
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This is a very old church and we do not know who St Blasius was, I suppose we could look him or her up! Harry didn't mind sitting on the holly, he doesn't complain like Mini-Kolo.<br />
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We walked through the church yard and at the back of the church there is this stone style in a little wood. That was nice and cool!<br />
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On the other side of the stone style there was a gate leading onto Shanklin Down. We climbed and climbed, sometimes it was so steep we could hardly walk, but we got to the first part of the top.<br />
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This was half way up after walking on the very steep walk up a narrow path, Harry decided he needed a rest before going any further.<br />
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Eventually we got to the real top after climbing through this field which is a very steep hill. We had climbed so high that you can only just see the town and sea below. Phew it was time for a rest.<br />
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A few yards from the trig point, that is at the top of the down, there is a style and you can see the valley below.<br />
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We looked ahead to where we were going. The radar station is just in view.<br />
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As we walked we came over to Luccombe Down. The landscape on this down is very different from that on Shanklin Down.<br />
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Look at this heather. It is a little past its best, for this year, but some of it was still quite bright. Otherwise the down has bracken and gorse with some stunted trees. The wind must be stronger on that side of the downs.<br />
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As we reached the top of the valley, near the radar station, Harry looked down the valley. There is a village called Wroxall and the ruins of a stately home, Appledurcumbe House, where the Worsleys lived, <a href="http://www.appuldurcombe.co.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.appuldurcombe.co.uk/</a>.<br />
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We walked across to Wroxall Down, where we could see the village below in the valley.<br />
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We climbed down some very steep roads and steps to the seafront at Ventnor. Harry found this ice cream he needed it by this time.<br />
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We walked to Bonchurch, along the seafront. The tide was high and the waves were crashing on the footpath so we didn't stop for pictures until we got to Bonchurch. We stopped here and ate our sandwiches looking out over the sea.<br />
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We went back a different way, through the wooded landslip that takes you from Bonchurch to Shanklin. Harry enjoyed climbing here. It involves a lot of climbing up and down but not as steep as going over the downs.<br />
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There is a wishing seat near the end of the landslip, Harry wished his feet didn't hurt quite so much.<br />
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We came out of the landslip and back onto Luccombe Down.<br />
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On Luccombe Common we found the table of the famous Luccombe Jam Man. He had obviously sold a lot of jam because the table was nearly empty. We bought some plum jam. His jam is always fantastic so it is a treat.<br />
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When we left Luccombe Common we came out of the woods. Harry enjoyed the views. All that remainded was to walk back into Shanklin, down Luccombe Road, past nice hotels and houses.<br />
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It was a challenging walk but we managed it. Thank you for reading. Another walk tomorrow.<br />
<br />Kolo Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07750346095210131579noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1010294536185342068.post-16684273664677171952016-09-13T06:27:00.000-07:002016-09-13T06:27:17.411-07:00An island walkSo back from our exciting adventures in the USA and back to our normal holidaying routine, walks! Its been pretty hot and we have not done so much walking as usual. We also think that you might get bored with our walks, its a lovely island for walking but not very big, so it may be a bit repetitive. However, we do try to take some different pictures.<br />
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We started out from the village of Shalfleet in the west of the island. Harry studied the map to make sure we were going the right way.<br />
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He went past the old mill and over the bridge.<br />
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After walking through a small wood and two fields we got to the little town of Newtown. We often buy produce by the roadside there. We had hoped for beans but they had marrows and apples. Marrows are nice but we don't know what to do with them.<br />
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We crossed another bridge and stopped for a look at the scenery.<br />
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At Newtown we stopped at the little Georgian town hall, it is tiny. Harry likes to pose for pictures here.<br />
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We also love the old town pump, Harry climbed all over it as he usually does.<br />
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The next part of the walk involved a wood so Harry did some climbing.<br />
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Finally we reached our second destination. There is not much there unless you are a bird watcher, as there are a lot of birds to see in the Newtown area, but we enjoy the walk itself.<br />
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This walk covers a rather unusual part of the island, wetlands, so it is interesting for us. We turned around and walked back again a slightly different way, to look for blackberries, but they seem to have been picked.<br />
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That was just a short walk. Today we have done a much longer one. Will blog again tomorrow.<br />
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Thank you for reading.Kolo Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07750346095210131579noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1010294536185342068.post-30667764656699006822016-09-12T00:35:00.002-07:002016-09-12T00:35:26.077-07:00Further adventures in BostonWe have talked about the great Tweet-up, after that, Mini-Kolo had further adventures in Boston. The first of these started with a breakfast sandwich at Tatte. Mini-Kolo was in for a busy day so he needed a good breakfast. A fried egg and cheese sandwich (he didn't have the bacon)!<div>
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After breakfast Mini-Kolo set out for Harvard.</div>
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There was a long queue to take pictures with John Harvard, but Mini-Kolo climbed up his chair and looked at his books. He seemed to draw a bigger audience than Mr Harvard.</div>
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In order to prove that he had been to Harvard he had his picture taken with the plaque on the stand where Mr Harvard sits.</div>
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Moving on for a walk around Cambridge, where Harvard is situated, he noticed this ice cream shop, he liked the look of it, but sadly it wasn't open. Perhaps it was a bit early in the morning, or maybe the cow mascot was eating the ice cream herself.</div>
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Mini-Kolo felt that he could progress straight to advanced studies, and not bother with the easier stuff. He visited the admissions department to discuss that with them. Sadly, as it was Labor Day, they were closed.</div>
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Mini-Kolo finished his visit to Harvard with lunch (if you can call it lunch), at the Co-op. Apple tart for lunch!! Umm!! I'm not sure about that Mini-Kolo</div>
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After a busy and hot day at Harvard Mini-Kolo was hungry (you see, apple tart does not make a good lunch)! By this time we had met up with our friend Monkey again and we introduced him to Durgin Park. Mini-Kolo chose the mac and cheese.</div>
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It was very nice, but that didn't come with chips either. More salad!! Not Mini-Kolo's favourite! He enjoyed his dinner though.</div>
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Monkey ordered a pudding, strawberry shortcake. Mini-Kolo had to help him out with that one.</div>
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The next day Mini-Kolo started with breakfast at the Paramount restaurant in Charles Street. We had wanted to go to this place for breakfast before, but it is so popular that, over the Labor Day weekend, there were long queues. Mini-Kolo could see exactly why once he tried the banana french toast.</div>
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After that he decided to visit the medical museum at Massachusetts General Hospital. Mini-Kolo finds medical things interesting so he was keen to go.</div>
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Looked at this 1970s heart/lung machine. Mini-Kolo loved playing with the dials, what a good thing there was no patient attached to it at the time! He also did some diagnosing and matching cells. It was a fascinating museum.</div>
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Massachusetts General Hospital is famous because that is where ether was first used in operations. We were able to go into the main hospital to visit the ether dome, where they carried out the operations. Mini-Kolo took a seat in the lecture theater to view an operation. However, there was no operation scheduled so he decided to give a lecture instead.</div>
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Only one person attended the lecture, and Mini-Kolo was a little puzzled about what had happened to this person's fur.</div>
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They seemed to get on well, despite the naked condition of the chap. After visiting the museum Mini-Kolo went for a walk around town and found a grilled cheese sandwich to have for lunch, at Panificio in Charles Street.</div>
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After that Mini-Kolo was pretty full and had to walk further to digest all that food.</div>
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That didn't stop him wanting breakfast the next day, of course. We went back to Panificio and had to choose between their banana pancakes and french toast.</div>
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This was our last day and we had a last look around Boston before going to the airport to get our night flight back to Heathrow. That didn't stop Mini-Kolo from getting into more interesting adventures. This time helping the Boston police.</div>
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Finally, after an exciting holiday, we made our way to Logan International Airport to get back to England. Mini-Kolo enjoyed watching the planes being loaded and unloaded, landing and taking off. It is also rather an airport with a view.</div>
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Thank you for reading about Mini-Kolo's adventures. We are planning another trip to the US next year, to do what we had intended to do last year, including San Diego and Seattle. Before that we have another week before my person returns to work so we will be doing some walking and blog about that. There is a heatwave in England still so I don't know how far we will get.</div>
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Mini-Kolo had a great trip to the US and was so glad to meet friends in Boston. We missed those who could not make it to the Tweet-up, but hope to see you on another occasion.</div>
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Very handsome and great clothes, but where else but in Texas would you meet cattle supermodels?<br />
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After a good flight on American Airlines we arrived at Logan Airport in Boston and made our way to the hotel, the Wyndham in Blossom Street. Nice and central and easy to get to. Once we had checked in we went in search of a pizza. There was a bit of a shock to find that our usual favourite pizza place in Boston, the California Pizza Kitchen, had closed down. However, we found a great pizza at Panificio in Charles Street.<br />
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Phew!! Mini-Kolo was worried that he wouldn't get a pizza. Of course we knew that pizza was easily available in the North End but we had walked in the other direction and were a bit lazy about walking over there, so Mini-Kolo was thrilled to find this one, and it was delicious.<br />
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More food! First thing in the morning we found the biggest almond croissant in the world, at Tatte in Charles Street. It didn't take Mini-Kolo long to polish that off!<br />
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By the time we reached there Mini-Kolo felt in need of a rest before walking back. On he way back Mini-Kolo encountered some frat boys having a back to college party. We think it was going to get noisy!!<br />
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The next day was Tweet-up day! We met at Durgin Park, near Quincy Market. We met:<br />
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@countryclare7 (Mary Ellen, in the light blue stripped top), @lilyluwhoT (Bonny at the back) and @grrlysquirrel75 (Michelle), Bonny and Mary Ellen brought their baboons along too.<br />
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The baboons started by getting into the cornbread, well it was at least two hours since Mini-Kolo had had an enormous brioche for breakfast.<br />
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Well baboons need to eat constantly!<br />
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Mini-Kolo much preferred manperson's and Michelle's chips to his own salad. I think he is pinching them in this picture, it looks rather suspicious anyway.<br />
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After lunch we went for a walk to the North End to do some sightseeing. The baboons found a peace garden where they had their pictures taken.<br />
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The garden was dedicated to St Francis of Assisi, who was a patron saint of animals, so they thought he wouldn't mind them climbing on his railings.<br />
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We really enjoyed the Tweet-up, thank you to all who came along it was fun.<br />
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Mini-Kolo had a few more adventures in Boston, we will blog about those tomorrow. Thank you for reading.Kolo Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07750346095210131579noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1010294536185342068.post-18558887733931304602016-09-10T01:27:00.002-07:002016-09-10T01:27:42.035-07:00Arriving in TexasIts been a while since we blogged. Well its been a bit of a quiet time at Baboon HQ. However, we are back from holiday and ready to tell you all about it.<br />
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Mini-Kolo was going to Texas so he started out in his Longhorns shirt. He had to leave home early so he had breakfast at Heathrow Terminal 5. That was quite exciting as he ran into a number of GB Paralympic athletes, who were leaving from Brazil.<br />
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After a long delay and long flight, he arrived in Dallas, got through immigration with no problem and waited in the long, long, long customs queue and made his way to his favourite TexMex resturant, Gloria's (there are lots of these now in Dallas).<br />
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He started with nachos and sauce. He likes the black bean sauce better than the salsa. Then he had a plantain starter.<br />
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With sour cream and more black bean sauce. Followed by ...<br />
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spinach enchiladas, with rice and sauce. Now he felt that he was really in Texas.<br />
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The next day he went to check out his favourite Texas supermarket, Central Market. He liked the look of these cakes,<br />
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but not as much as these cakes.<br />
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Yes the cakes at Central Market are rather special aren't they! Anyone visiting Texas and not visiting Central Market is missing out. Mini-Kolo bought ingredients to cook macaroni cheese, or as it is called in America mac and cheese.<br />
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After all of that shopping he went for lunch at Judy's in Richardson (Dallas). He chose between grilled cheese (an American essential) and tuna on rye. He chose the grilled cheese.<br />
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After all of that travelling Mini-Kolo was quite tired. He cooked macaroni cheese and had an early night.<br />
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The next day he got up early and went for breakfast at Cafe Brazil in Richardson. He spent a long time looking at the menu and chose fruit French toast.<br />
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This was a really interesting museum. Mini-Kolo really liked these antlers.<br />
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He studied this oil well.<br />
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and this miniature aircraft engine.<br />
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Finally he got interested in this desert scene as it had a wild boar, and Mini-Kolo is fascinated by wild boar.<br />
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After that he decided to check out the swimming pool at our friend's complex.<br />
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It was quite hot! Mini-Kolo read the pool rules. There were an awful lot of them!<br />
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The first thing he noticed was that there was no lifeguard. So he decided to put that right.<br />
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As there was nobody else swimming he decided that this was a bit of a waste of time so he decided to try some swimming himself.<br />
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On the other hand it was a bit wet and so he changed his mind.<br />
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After all of those adventures he was hungry and went to Central Market cafe, where he had Chinese food.<br />
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It was delicious.<br />
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He had one more day in Texas and he spent most of it eating.<br />
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Blueberry pancakes for breakfast at Norma's in Dallas. Norma's is famous for pies and Mini-Kolo checked these out.<br />
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More swimming and walking and sightseeing and then dinner at Cafe Brazil, cheese omelette with rosemary potatoes.<br />
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Yes, a lot of eating but Texas was hot and Mini-Kolo used up a lot of energy in the pool. He needed lots of food and the food in Texas is rather special.<br />
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The next day Mini-Kolo had to say goodbye to our friend Monkey.<br />
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After that he left for Dallas Fort Worth airport to move on to Boston. Read more about his journey and his adventures in Boston in the next blog.Kolo Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07750346095210131579noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1010294536185342068.post-53115181831316419842016-08-28T01:35:00.001-07:002016-08-28T01:35:17.374-07:00A rather belated blogThere has been so much going on a Baboon HQ lately that we have not blogged for ages. This blog is about a lovely day we had in London with some Twitter pals.<br />
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It was a bit of a grey old day when we boarded Red Funnel's Red Eagle ferry in East Cowes, but Mini-Kolo loves the car ferry, whatever the weather.<br />
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This is not the ferry we usually get, it goes from East Cowes to Southampton, which makes it slightly easier to drive to London.<br />
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When Mini-Kolo got to London it was much sunnier, he was excited about going on the London Underground. He went from Richmond to South Kensington. For those of you who know London you will know that the big museums are in South Kensington and he was headed for the Victoria and Albert Museum (known as the V&A).<br />
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In the V&A cafe Mini-Kolo met Ilana, Gromek Cat's new family member, who Gromek calls Burble. Ilana seemed to be quite keen on Mini-Kolo.<br />
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Gromek's baboon, Dwayne, was not going to be left out and he joined the party. We had a lovely lunch and got our feet wet in the paddling pool. London was quite hot.<br />
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By the time we got back to Southampton it was hot there too and Mini-Kolo wanted to open the ferry window. He loved watching the cars loading.<br />
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It was lovely to see Gromek's family again. We will not be able to see them again in Boston as they have moved right across the country, but maybe another time.Kolo Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07750346095210131579noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1010294536185342068.post-72854497793918227002016-06-07T22:50:00.000-07:002016-06-07T22:50:09.729-07:00Ozil exploresHi, another lovely day at Baboon HQ and no work today so we went for another walk. Ozil wanted to be n the pictures, and I am sure you will agree that he is the best dressed baboon at HQ. We drove to Arreton and walked along another disused railway.<br />
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You can tell it was a railway because of the railway gates.<br />
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We came to Merstone Station, where Ozil was surprised to find that somebody had left their luggage on the platform for so long that it had turned to stone.<br />
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The Red Squirrel Trail!! We get red squirrels on the island, no grey ones, but we do not often see them as they are much shyer than the grey ones. We have never actually seen one on this trail. However, we have never really seen a troll either. Or perhaps we have. Mini-Breeze found one, when he was visiting.<br />
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The island is full of rhododendron plants, at the moment, and Ozil likes them a lot. He found these fine bushes near the car.<br />
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Well today is another lovely day and we will go on another adventure. We are not getting all the things done that we had hoped to this week, but the weather is so nice!!Kolo Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07750346095210131579noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1010294536185342068.post-37912292527236729652016-06-06T23:29:00.000-07:002016-06-06T23:32:44.318-07:00Aboo's outingAnother lovely day, and no work, so we had another outing. This time Aboo wanted to be in the pictures. He is quite a character! We did a favourite walk.<br />
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We started at Freshwater Bay and climbed up onto the Downs. Aboo was quite proud of himself for doing that and he looked back at where he had been. Then we climbed up Tennyson Down.<br />
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This was a bit much for Aboo and he dramatically stretched out on a bench claiming to be exhausted. <br />
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After a rest he had a look at the Tennyson memorial and explored his surroundings a bit.<br />
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He looked over at the mainland.<br />
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He checked out the distances to various places.<br />
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From there he looked at where we would be going next. We were walking right to the end of the island, above the Needles. He was pleased to see that the next part would be down hill.<br />
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From there he climbed a tree to see the views. He looked in all directions.<br />
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All rather beautiful! It's good to be a baboon and be able to climb trees because you can see a lot more things.<br />
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We walked to the end of the island and back to the foot of Tennyson Down.<br />
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Aboo was a bit put out to see that he had to climb again.<br />
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He put up a bit of a protest, folded arms, not doing it!!<br />
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Oh well, it worked, he managed to hitch a lift!! Well done Aboo!<br />
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Finally lunch. We went to the Dandelion Cafe in the Haven walking holidays hotel. Aboo is a skinny chap but he eats plenty. He couldn't make up his mind between the humus with pitta or the nachos with sour cream and salsa, so he decided to have a bit of both.<br />
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More adventures to come!!Kolo Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07750346095210131579noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1010294536185342068.post-44429673894684099032016-06-05T23:42:00.002-07:002016-06-05T23:42:46.137-07:00Hot day out!We are having very good weather on Baboon Island, so Harry decided to go out and see the sights. He did a walk that Russell did recently, the Freshwater Way.<br />
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This walk takes you along a disused railway track alongside the River Yar (there are two rivers on the island called Yar, this is the West Yar, guess what the other one is called). Harry climbed up to check the tide, which was clearly out.<br />
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A little further on, and out of the trees, he could see more. He looked towards where we were going and back towards Yarmouth where we started, you can just see the expensive boats there.<br />
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First Harry looked towards where we were going, the hill ahead of him is the home of the Freshwater golf club and then you get to the sea. He also saw some horses but they seemed big so he kept his distance.<br />
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After walking eight miles it was time for lunch at Gossips Cafe in Yarmouth. Harry could choose between the cheese, ham and pineapple melt without ham, or the cheese ham and pineapple melt without pineapple. I can see he is leaning towards the one with pineapple.<br />
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After lunch he had a look at Yarmouth Harbour. This monster ate the wood beams in the old pier. Harry was brave to climb on him.<br />
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The Yarmouth lifeboat was in the harbour so Harry had a look. He likes lifeboats.<br />
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Then he looked at some expensive boats in the harbour. On balance we baboons prefer to stay on land so he didn't want to actually go on them.<br />
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Harry had a great day out and it was very warm. He did remember to put sunscreen on and we hope all of you do to.<br />
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Thank you for reading. More adventures to come.<br />
<br />Kolo Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07750346095210131579noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1010294536185342068.post-76180065693840655522016-05-09T01:50:00.001-07:002016-05-09T01:50:55.141-07:00Cadbury tweet-up adventureThis weekend we had a different sort of adventure. We went to a tweet-up at Cadbury chocolate factory, which is in the midlands of England, near Birmingham. As we live in the south of England we did not want to do the trip in one day so we drove up the day before and stayed in Stratford-on-Avon in Warwickshire.<br />
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This meant leaving home early and going on the car ferry. Harry brought the mini-muffins along for breakfast.<br />
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We took a leisurely drive up via Hampshire and Oxfordshire. My person was very happy to go through Oxfordshire and see where her grandfather came from. Just outside the lovely Oxfordshire, Cotsworlds town of Chipping Norton, we found the Artyard Cafe. Harry couldn't choose between carrot cake and chocolate cheesecake.<br />
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Mini-Kolo found this motorbike and went for a ride.<br />
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We went for a walk along the river Avon and found a lock. Harry had trouble climbing up and got there just as Mini-Kolo fell off. We walked on quite a long way.<br />
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After lunch we walked around Stratford and met this enormous teddy. We are not sure what character he is representing.<br />
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By this time our paws were tired and we checked into the hotel and put our paws up for a while. That was a welcome break.<br />
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On Saturday morning we made our way to Bournville for the Cadbury tweet-up. We arrived despite the SatNav.<br />
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While we were waiting for the others, at Cadbury, Mini-Kolo and Harry decided to check out the Cadbury cow to make sure it was safe for all the others. Baboons are good climbers so they are right to do the checking. Mini-Kolo found a little niche on the tail.<br />
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Everyone arrived Tour Guide Ted, Ker'd, Tired Teacher Ted, SallyJainW, Lucky, Bluey and Honey and us. The baboon behind Mini-Kolo is Sally's rehomed baboon Betsy Pawwood, named after Beset Trotwood in David Copperfield. She is Ryan Baboon's sister so he was glad we had met her.<br />
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Then came the cow scramble!! Mini-Kolo kept his safe place in the tail, he falls off things often.<br />
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So time to enter the Cadbury exhibition.<br />
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Mini-Kolo couldn't wait to get in on the chocolate act with TGT's Theo!!<br />
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Next thing we knew we found ourselves in a rain forest, where we learned the history of chocolate. That was very interesting and later we learned about the history of Cadbury which was fascinating.<br />
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We loved the chocolate shapes. Harry specially liked the football.<br />
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After the trip around the exhibition and a visit to the shop we got acquainted with Ker'd over lunch. He has come to England all the way from Ohio and is having fun adventures and meeting Twitter pals.<br />
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After all that adventuring we were very hungry and went to the White Swan Hotel in Stratford for fish and chips. These were lovely and manperson reported that the beer was also good.<br />
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It was great to meet all of you and we hope to meet you again. We will see some of you at the IOW tweet up in July. We missed Martha B Bear because she was involved with her football team's great achievement, but we will see you in July Martha.Kolo Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07750346095210131579noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1010294536185342068.post-25937971749220051422016-05-05T07:39:00.003-07:002016-05-05T07:39:44.155-07:00Today's walkOh yes I only blogged this morning and now I am blogging again on the same day. This is because we are going on a different type of adventure tomorrow and won't have time. We went for a long walk today, starting in Upper Ventnor.<br />
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Harry checked out the view from the Whitwell Road, where we started. This is at the top of the cliff and there is an undercliff below, before you get to the sea. Its very high.<br />
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We've been taking pictures of bluebells, but Harry found some pinkbells!! We carried on along the Whitwell Road, which is also the cliff path, and then crossed over a road into fields.<br />
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Harry checked where we were when we got to a stile on the cliff above the village of St Lawrence.<br />
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We carried on along the cliff path through woody bits and fields, including fields full of flowers, here there were daisies, buttercups and dandelions.<br />
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From the cliff path Harry could see St Catherine's lighthouse down on the undercliff, a long way down!!<br />
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Harry looked across the downs to where we were headed to, just below the hill in the background.<br />
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He looked back over where we had been.<br />
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We got to our destination, the viewpoint above Blackgang Chine and below the old St Catherine's lighthouse, also called the pepper pot. We were thrilled to find the cafe there was called the Banana Tree, that is a new cafe. We had hot chocolate there and looked at the view.<br />
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It was a little bit hazy today, being May, but we could see all over the west of the island to the Needles rocks.<br />
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On the way back, not content with finding bluebells and pinkbells, we found whitebells as well. At first we thought they were snowdrops but we compared them and they were different and grew like bluebells.<br />
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There were lots of woody bits along the way so of course we did some climbing, here we needed to climb to avoid the massive stinging nettles below.<br />
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On the way back we had to climb this hill and we took at rest at the top to look back at the path and the undercliff, the light house is hidden by trees.<br />
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Finally we got back to Ryde and visited the supermarket, Sainsburys, to get some muffins for breakfast tomorrow, as it is somebody's birthday and we have an adventure to go on. We met our monkey pals who work in their window advertising. Today they were getting ready for summer barbecues, picnics and the European Football Championships which are coming up next month.Kolo Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07750346095210131579noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1010294536185342068.post-86493250278510546822016-05-04T23:39:00.000-07:002016-05-04T23:39:01.200-07:00Another walkWe are really enjoying our week off work and yesterday we had another walk. Diego Baboon got up to mischief. This was rather a strange day because we started on one walk and then turned back and did another, we are not sure why and its not usual Baboon HQ behaviour unless there is too much mud or flooding, which there wasn't! We started at Brightstone and Diego checked out the cliff path.<br />
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This is on the south of the island between Blackgang and Freshwater. We walked for about half an hour and then about half way through the forest we turned back. We will do that walk another day while person is still off work.<br />
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We drove to Freshwater and walked down our favourite disused railway next to the River Yar. Diego climbed a tree to get a better look at the river.<br />
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The hedges are covered in blossom and Diego wanted to show you. We walked a different way and found a disused railway station (not surprising on a disused railway line).<br />
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This is where Diego got up to a bit of mischief and climbed the signal. Well he is a baboon. This disused station is a cafe now, and a bike hire company.<br />
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Diego may be mischievous but he knows that the Baboon HQ budget is not for paying fines. This railway gate threatens that anyone who does not shut and fasten the gate will be liable for a penalty not exceeding 40 shillings. Well 40 shillings is not so much these days but Diego made sure nobody could accuse him of not shutting and fastening the gate.<br />
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We came out at the seafront just outside Yarmouth and Diego had a rest looking at the sea.<br />
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Finally we walked back along the river and Diego had a climb to prove he was a baboon.<br />
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Another lovely day out followed by tea and a nap.Kolo Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07750346095210131579noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1010294536185342068.post-30648059947821323162016-05-03T09:19:00.002-07:002016-05-03T09:19:20.934-07:00Long sunny walkToday was another lovely day and my person is off work this week so we went for another long walk. We started from home and walked along the seafront at Ryde.<br />
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Harry loves the sandy beach here and he likes to look at the boats.<br />
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Still on the seafront, at Springvale, Harry could see Seaview which was our first destination.<br />
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Harry admired the shingle beach at Seaview. A lot of people visit Seaview to go sailing.<br />
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Moving on we turned inland and walked through fields from Seaview to St Helen's (that is a little village on Baboon Island, not the big town in Lancashire).<br />
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We baboons always giggle here, can you see the crazy tree that is much taller than the others? It is a mobile phone mast disguised as a tree. Does it fool you?<br />
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We reached Bembridge and after stopping for coffee at our favourite cafe, the Toll Gate, we walked along to Bembridge Mill. This is quite old and small, it belongs to the National Trust. We will go in one day.<br />
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We walked down a few hills and along the sea wall. This is the ancient sea wall. I know it doesn't look much like a sea wall and it is quite a long way inland but Brading Harbour used to come up this far. It has been silted up for centuries now and makes a lovely walk.<br />
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We crossed the airfield at Bembridge and into the countryside of Brading Marshes. On top of the hill in the background you can see Bembridge Fort, it looks like trees from here. It was a Roman fort but more recently I think it has been an IT company premises.<br />
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You can hardly see Harry in this one but ahead the white buildings are the village of Brading where we were going.<br />
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After crossing the fields we entered some woods, where we did some climbing. There were lots of bluebells, you can see some of them in the background.<br />
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Before leaving the countryside to walk along the tarmac path into Brading we stopped to have a look around. You can see for miles from here. It is a beautiful walk.<br />
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We stopped to have a chat with some cattle who love to look at the same view and then walked into Brading.<br />
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In Brading we went for lunch at the Waxworks Cafe, in the building that used to be a wax work museum. It was a very yummy lunch, cheese and appleslaw sandwich with fries and salad. After a nine mile walk we deserved it.<br />
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The cafe has a chocolate shop attached with a lot of lovely looking chocolates. Harry found these Isle of Wight chocolate bars.<br />
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After lunch we took the bus home for a cup of tea and a nap on the sofa. It was a long hot walk but lovely!!Kolo Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07750346095210131579noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1010294536185342068.post-22271958136431703362016-05-01T23:43:00.002-07:002016-05-01T23:43:43.527-07:00Russell goes out for May DayYesterday was a beautiful day and it was May Day so we decided to do a good long walk. We drove over to Yarmouth to start walking the Freshwater Way. Russell, who has just returned to Baboon HQ wanted to be in the pictures. This was his first outing ever.<br />
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At Yarmouth Harbour Russell was fascinated by the boats. He has never been on a boat but he thought they looked fun.<br />
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Boats look good but baboons and boats don't really mix, so we started off walking down the disused railway alongside the River Yar. The Yar is tidal and the tide was low so we could see lots of plants that are often hidden by water and a little egret was there, you can just see him, the white bird in the water. Russell stopped for a chat.<br />
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The chilly spring seems to have suited the bluebells. There are lots of them everywhere. Russell rather liked them.<br />
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There are also a lot of primroses still around and Russell like them as well.<br />
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At the church on the causeway at Freshwater, Russell stopped to pay his respects. This is quite an old and beautiful cemetery. The chilly spring seems to have stopped the trees, over on the west of the island, from getting as much blossom as over here in the east.<br />
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Further along Russell spotted some donkeys in a field and stopped for a chat.<br />
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The donkeys were very friendly and Russell stopped for a long talk with them.<br />
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Russell had a really great day out. He enjoyed himself, and I think we will have trouble keeping him in in future. Mini-Kolo better watch out.Kolo Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07750346095210131579noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1010294536185342068.post-63845675448030111092016-04-23T03:41:00.000-07:002016-04-23T03:41:06.826-07:00Last weekendIt has been a long time coming, this year, but last weekend we had really nice weather. Harry went on some adventures. On Saturday Henry @henryandfriends was visiting the island, so we met for coffee.<br />
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The boys had coffee in Michelangelo's in Ryde. Well neither were really interested in the coffee but you can see they were enjoying the macaroon biscuits.<br />
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On Sunday we went for a walk, We started by driving over to Freshwater.<br />
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The weather was lovely so it was a great drive.<br />
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The first thing to do was to climb this hill. Harry checked it out before embarking on it. It's quite a long and steep climb.<br />
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From the top Harry looked over Freshwater bay and Freshwater town. It was a lovely clear day.<br />
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More climbing, not so steep but very long, up to the Tennyson monument, on the top of Tennyson Down. This is a memorial to Alfred Lord Tennyson who was the poet laureate in Victorian times and spent much of his time at his house in Freshwater, called Farringford. It is a hotel now.<br />
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There were views of the English Channel, Freshwater Bay, all the way to where Blackgang Chine is, where we went for a tweetup last summer, and over the Solent (the stretch of water between our island and the mainland), to the mainland and Hurst Castle, which was one of Henry VIII's fortresses to protect England from the Spanish who he thought might invade by coming down the Solent.<br />
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Then we walked down the other side of the hill, where Harry could see the Tennyson Memorial. This is when we told him that it was not a circular walk and we would have to go back up that hill later. He was brave about it.<br />
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Harry turned around to look at where we were still going to walk. This is Needles Down and takes us to above the Needles, the chalk stacks that stand off the most westerly point on the island. There is another fort there, called the Needles Battery. That one was built to protect the Solent from the French when Napoleon was trying to take over Europe and it has been used more recently. However, that is at a lower level so we didn't go in.<br />
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Harry found a signpost to make sure we were going the right way.<br />
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He also checked out the way back to Freshwater, just in case.<br />
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Of course, as always Harry decided to do what we baboons do and climb some trees on the way.<br />
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It was a very nice day out and we were happy to feel the sun on our fur!!Kolo Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07750346095210131579noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1010294536185342068.post-72490789803349894212016-04-09T03:35:00.001-07:002016-04-09T03:35:02.416-07:00A rehoming and a returnHello, I have been quite slow to blog about the latest re-homing. It happened in January but I have only just got around to it. Our dear friend @BiddyBT has already re-homed Brian, who has trained as a lumbar jack and keeps them in firewood. Just before Christmas Brian asked whether we could find him an apprentice to help him in his work. I put out a call and found a young relative of mine who was living in Kentucky. Just after Christmas he came over to Baboon HQ, and we sent him off to join Brian.<br />
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Brian on the left has been with Biddy since May 2015, Jingle, in the white T-shirt, joined him in January and is learning to be be a lumbar jack. I hear they are getting on very well and Jingle is fitting right in.<br />
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Brian and Jingle work hard but there is plenty of time for fun. You know how baboons love to climb and Jingle wasted no time following Brian climbing up the tree trunk.<br />
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You can see that Jingle has joined a big family. After a hard day's work its lovely to rest in the sun with friends and family.<br />
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Its not all about work by far, Jingle climbed on Brian and helped others up. That's good, co-operation!!<br />
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Then a picnic in the sunshine.<br />
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We can see that Jingle has followed Brian in becoming a smart dresser and is fitting in well and having fun, as well as learning to be a lumbar jack. Everyone does their bit at Biddy's house and they all dress really well!<br />
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Now, meet Russell baboon. Here he is with me. Russell was re-homed from Baboon HQ in 2012. He had a good time but the time came when his re-homing had to end and he has been welcomed back at Baboon HQ. Of course, now that he is a Baboon HQ baboon, he is supporting Arsenal, as we all do here, so we had an Arsenal shirt all ready for him.<br />
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Russell has already made friends with Ryan and Aboo so he is settling in well.Kolo Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07750346095210131579noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1010294536185342068.post-10365057384046869962016-03-26T09:03:00.002-07:002016-03-26T09:03:26.757-07:00Good Friday at Baboon HQThe Easter weekend is good for us because our people don't have to work. So, like on any proper day off we went out for breakfast. At the Bembridge bakery Harry came across hot cross buns for the first time.<br />
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The buns were very fresh because they were made at the bakery that day. We heard that the baker had been at work since 3 am making hot cross buns, bread and Easter cakes. Well they certainly did a good job. All hot cross buns are nice but these were extra special and very sticky.<br />
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After all the buns we felt a walk would be a good idea. We drove around to the famous Toll Gate cafe at Bembridge, parked there and walked across to the Bembridge life boat station.<br />
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It was a beautiful day and Harry enjoyed feeling the sun on his fur!<br />
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We walked on past the Bembridge Coast Hotel and the Crab and Lobster pub and onto the cliff path.<br />
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Harry was surprised to have the cliffs on one side and fields on the other. Just over near the houses there were some sheep but no lambs there yet.<br />
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Part of the cliff path is wooded and we did some climbing in the trees.<br />
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Then we came out to where we could see the sea again. Its a very varied walk.<br />
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Usually the target of this walk is the monument you can see at the top of the Culver Down, where you can see down into Sandown Bay where Harry was a couple of weeks ago. However, this time we didn't do the climb so we turned and got back to the Toll Gate cafe in time for lunch. We were quite muddy! Well yes lunch, Harry ate his toasted cheese sandwich so fast we didn't get a picture. He was very hungry after that walking and climbing.<br />
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We are very glad we did a long walk yesterday because today the weather is bad so no sunny walk today.Kolo Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07750346095210131579noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1010294536185342068.post-48890004391379562822016-03-18T04:31:00.003-07:002016-03-18T04:31:51.560-07:00Time out at Baboon HQLast Sunday was a lovely sunny day so we decided that Harry should visit Sandown Bay and walk along to Shanklin and back. The walk started as you would expect.<br />
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A nice early morning view of the beach. That looked like a good start! However, things got a bit unexpected after that. Harry walked along to Shanklin and met this character.<br />
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Despite his small size Harry is quite a brave baboon so he stopped to find out whether he had found himself in the middle of a pirate raid. Well no, just crazy golf apparently!!<br />
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Reassured, he walked along a bit further and the next thing he knew he thought he was in the middle of Moby Dick!!<br />
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On Sandown pier Harry met this chap, yes a giant cow eating an ice cream. Harry stopped to warn him that he appeared to have bitten off the bottom of his cornet and the inevitable outcome would be ice cream dripping out of the bottom. He didn't seem to care much!! He said he does it every day. Oh well!! We had to conclude that Sandown Bay had got itself a bit mixed up. Fun though!!</div>
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Toast and marmalade at Bembridge Bakery. They make specially good bread and cakes there! Talking of cakes! Tom is an adventurous bear so he went to investigate the cakes. I can tell you he was impressed!!</div>
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Harry set off, with our people to walk to Fishbourne. A nice village where the car ferry comes in.<br />
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First he found snowdrops,<br />
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Further on he found little daffodils with a hyacinth.<br />
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Nearer to Fishbourne we found a different type of snowdrops.<br />
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Fishbourne Green is always a haven for daffodils at this time of year.<br />
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Now what are these? They are pink and Harry thought they were pretty but we do not know what they are.<br />
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Then there were these other flowers outside the Fishbourne Inn. We don't know what they are either.<br />
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Yes, of course Harry and our people felt the need for coffee in the Fishbourne Inn. Yes, as we have said, Harry is not Mini-Kolo and he doesn't have a caffeine addiction! He is always interested in the treats that come with the coffee. This one was particularly nice, not that our people know this because Harry polished them off!!<br />
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Ah now, on Friday my person took a day off work because they had worked some Saturdays for an open day. What is the most important thing to do to start a good day off? Answer, breakfast out! This time we went to French Franks, which is near home, because my person had an appointment at 9.30 (new hair cut)!! Harry loves croissants so that is what he had.<br />
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Well and that was not all he did. At lunchtime he went to one of our favourite places in Ryde, Olivos. Look who he met!! Harry had not met Henry before so he was very excited. They had pasta. Henry had ham in his, but Harry doesn't eat meat so he had it without ham. It was very nice with broccoli and mushrooms in a creamy sauce!!<br />
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After that Harry came home and napped for a bit as he was tired, but in the evening he went out for a mezze at very nice place in Ryde, called Ada, but he didn't get pictures!! Harry ate every meal out on Friday. Wow!!Kolo Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07750346095210131579noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1010294536185342068.post-66257178776564861522016-02-07T03:53:00.001-08:002016-02-07T03:53:28.666-08:00Baboon HQHi, this is a nice sunny day so we started the day by going for a walk. We visited the hardworking monkeys in our Sainsburys window, who advertise products for special occasions. Today they were all ready for Valentine's day.<br />
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They have been resting since new year but are busy again now. They work very hard all year and we do like to visit them.<br />
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Then we thought we might introduce you to some of the more unusual residents of Baboon HQ and a new arrival. I'll let the baboons introduce the less usual residents. There are a lot of non-baboons at Baboon HQ, most are lions, bears and other monkeys. These are some of the more unusual ones.<br />
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Hello, I'm Edward and I would like to introduce my friend Westbourne. He lived at Baboon HQ before there were any baboons here and in fact when it was in London. He is called Westbourne because he came from an antiques shop in Westbourne Grove, London.<br />
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Our people used to go for dinner some Fridays to a pizza place in Westbourne Grove, they saw Westbourne in the window for a couple of years and always stopped to talk to him. However, he was far too expensive for them and they hoped he would find a good home. One day they were going on holiday and they decided that if he was still there when they got back they would buy him, never mind the price! He needed a good home. When they got back he was no longer in the window, so they thought he had found a home. Manperson decided to ask the shop owner about who had bought their friend. It turned out he had not been sold, just put in the back of the shop. The owner sold him to manperson for half the price. He as been with them for nearly 20 years.<br />
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Westbourne has an interesting history it seems he was a bellhop in a hotel in Philadelphia and had a tray on this head for drinks to be rested on him. He had no tray when our people met him so we were not sure. However, wait for further information in a minute. We became friends when I arrived, we have a shared background of living in an antiques shop window.<br />
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Hi, I'm Hoppo and I would like to introduce Socrates. Yes he is similar to Westbourne. We saw him recently in a shop window in Union Street, Ryde. Manperson decided to buy him. He somewhat confirms the story that Edward told you about Westbourne's origins. When Socrates arrived he had a tray on his back. We removed it as he doesn't need to work as a drinks table here. We called him Socrates because he looks philosophical.<br />
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Hello I'm George and I am introducing two of the four Tibetan monks who live at Baboon HQ. These two live in the living room, two more live downstairs in the study. They are very quiet but they help with our meditation.<br />
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Hello, you all know me, I'm Harry! I am introducing Johann. Now, this is an unusual story. Manperson went skiing with his brother and brought Johann back as a present for our person. Right, yes, I can see how you are thinking! How many people would go on holiday and bring back an oven glove for their partner. Yes, it would often not be welcome! However, Johann was welcome, he is not used as an oven glove, he is our Baboon HQ kitchen manager. He makes sure we have all we need and helps us with our cooking.<br />
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Hi, I'm Little Tony. Please meet Brian, he is a celebrity robot who advertises car insurance on television. He is sweet and funny and talks a lot.<br />
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Howdee I'm Ozzie, this is Benny, the skeleton sock monkey and Mungo who is a gorilla. They are good friends. Benny is unusual and funny. Mungo arrived at Baboon HQ because he was described as a baboon. Well he is not a baboon but he is very welcome here!<br />
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Finally a not unusual, but new resident of Baboon HQ, a celebrity bear, who advertises holidays. In the adverts he goes through lots of troubles but ends up happy on holiday.<br />
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Hello, I'm Freddy, I am introducing you to Tom. He only has one eye, but look at that smile. He even has a smile on his foot, look!! He makes us happy with his smile.<br />
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Well there are some non-baboon residents of Baboon HQ. We have more unusual ones who we can introduce another day.Kolo Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07750346095210131579noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1010294536185342068.post-6264114162547904532016-01-10T07:59:00.003-08:002016-01-10T07:59:20.399-08:00First weekend back at work!!We were very glad when the weekend came. First weeks back at work are always stressful. We started the weekend on Friday evening with Fish and Chips, but we were so hungry we forgot to take a picture.<br />
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Saturday morning started with a rehoming. You will no doubt see more about that in my next rehoming blog. I always cry when baboons leave so you can see I am looking sad. He is going to a great home though where he will have a wonderful life, joining another rehomed baboon. This one is a cousin of mine and he looks like my brother Roko!<br />
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Now we know why our manperson wanted the extendable ladder. Its to check the skylight to make sure its not leaking. It needs checking regularly. Jack couldn't resist trying out the ladder.<br />
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In the afternoon we all listened to the FA cup third round games on the radio. Our team got through but they gave us a few nasty moments. Sadly Hoppo seems to be hidden behind Tashi and Jack seems to be hidden behind Oregon, you can just see his sleeve. He is a bit camera shy but Hoppo isn't usually. Washington is only showing his hat and Yaya is hiding. It hard to take a picture of 33 excitable baboons and get them all in. I can't see Denis either.<br />
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On Sunday morning we started our breakfast at home with blueberries and raspberries with yogurt. Very nice and healthy!!<br />
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As if that wasn't enough berries we went to Olivos for breakfast blackcurrant pancakes! With cream!! Manperson had maple syrup with his instead of cream. They were completely yummy!!<br />
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We got the boys who were camera shy yesterday to have their photo taken. Hoppo and Jack at the back and Washington and Denis at the front. You can see they were reluctant, but there was no need to be they are all good looking boys!!<br />
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In the afternoon it was raining so we dozed and watched more FA cup football. Manperson was cooking a dish with this vegetable. Harry and Little Tony found it and wondered what it was. I explained it was a butternut squash.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bradley may look familiar, he is a cousin of Hudson, one of the #BaboonsThatCook, Hugo who lives with Zack Rabbit and BiddyBT's Brian.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After 15 minutes it was necessary to get the dish out of the oven. This used to be really hard, as a Pyrex dish, under a hot grill, gets very hot indeed. We used to double up the oven gloves and still found it too hot. However, our friend Miriam, from Germany, sent us these silicone oven gloves. They are fantastic, you can't feel a thing through them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today the weather is awful, wet and very windy. We were going to go out for breakfast, to finish the holiday off with a treat, but its too horrible out there and we have nice bread at home, so we will do it another Sunday.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We'll have a quiet, restful day watching the cricket. Sadly, we will take down the Christmas tree and put the decorations away carefully for next year. Thank you for reading my blog this holiday, I will try to keep it up to date at weekends during the working routine.</span></div>
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