COLD DARK ROOM

[EllieMay]

You are here oh no!!!! Now I have to stay up and play. How about Duke and his Lady? Or did you name her yet?

She’s doing just fine. I haven’t named her yet. Still calling her rig dog or Rigsy... she stinks no longer and I’ve got to make a vet appointment for her soon. She is very content to be right here though.. my son Really likes her ?

 

[EllieMay]

Tick.
Tock.
Tis late.
I'm off to count my toes.
May take a while, so I'll not see you all in a bit or two
Nos da, Roommates, old and new
Or old and young
Old but still sprightly
Whatever
Nos da!

Sleep tight. I won’t be far behind I think.

“Nos Da” brings Lyn to mind.. I miss her too

Good night!

 

[Cathie G]

Tick.
Tock.
Tis late.
I'm off to count my toes.
May take a while, so I'll not see you all in a bit or two
Nos da, Roommates, old and new
Or old and young
Old but still sprightly
Whatever
Nos da!

That sucks. But I guess we all have to sleep sometimes. Goodnight.

 

[Pastel Tortie]

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She’s doing just fine. I haven’t named her yet. Still calling her rig dog or Rigsy... she stinks no longer and I’ve got to make a vet appointment for her soon. She is very content to be right here though.. my son Really likes her ?

She looks quite at home.

 

[Cathie G]

Sleep tight. I won’t be far behind I think.

“Nos Da” brings Lyn to mind.. I miss her too

Good night!

I'll be eating and sleep won't be far behind. I miss her too.

 

[Lokkje]

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She’s doing just fine. I haven’t named her yet. Still calling her rig dog or Rigsy... she stinks no longer and I’ve got to make a vet appointment for her soon. She is very content to be right here though.. my son Really likes her ?

Name her Athena!

 

[Cathie G]

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She’s doing just fine. I haven’t named her yet. Still calling her rig dog or Rigsy... she stinks no longer and I’ve got to make a vet appointment for her soon. She is very content to be right here though.. my son Really likes her ?

So she got over the bath ordeal pretty quick... Next thing you know the little princess will demand one and be floating around in the pool with all of you.?

 

[Lokkje]

Tick.
Tock.
Tis late.
I'm off to count my toes.
May take a while, so I'll not see you all in a bit or two
Nos da, Roommates, old and new
Or old and young
Old but still sprightly
Whatever
Nos da!

When you return if I may be so presumptuous as to ask could you indulge my curiosity and tell me about Tidgy?

 

[Cathie G]

Anyways it’s 3:02am for me.
so I’m going to curl up and catch some ZzZzZzZzZzZz.
I got a kitty curled up on my arm lol.
Good night everyone. Take care and stay safe.
chat laters ??☺️☺️

Good night tomorrow will be fun. Sweet dreams with your little one.

 

[EllieMay]

So she got over the bath ordeal pretty quick... Next thing you know the little princess will demand one and be floating around in the pool with all of you.?

I don’t think I can handle another like Cinder. She’s more than enough.

Well.. I think I’m done now.. sleep tight everyone.

 

[Chefdenoel10]

Well my weekend has been a very busy weekend. I have started on my empty wine bottle wall around the torts enclosure. And it does not look too bad even if I say so myself. Adnd Kahli has been getting acquainted wit her new digs. She does give me the run around and I have to spend at least 15 to 20 minutes looking for her, she hides very well.

At first I was worried that she was not eating. But I moved her food ledge to the side that she seems to be favouring and this morning I saw that quite a bit of her crested gecko food was gone. Yayyy she is eating. She has eaten a waxworm, and I think a Dubia roach (I cannot be sure on this one as I did not see her eat it) . And I don't think she likes the Turkistan roaches.

So here is a pic of the wall, it is not completed and I have to fix up some of the cement work and make it look neater. And I still have to put another two or three levels on as well.

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And here are a few pics of Kahli, just to share, because I can:

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How stunning!!!!
Reptiles just amaze me sometimes and this is one of those times. What a beautiful pet you have and how interesting ?
I also love your wine bottle wall!!!
You drank all of that yourself?!?!?!?!?
What about the torts??
Don’t they get any?? ??
? + ??= ????

 

[Chefdenoel10]

Cheese.
Obviously.

you must REALLY like cheese old chap
Or are you part mouse? ?

 

[Chefdenoel10]

It's a fairly modern castle built by the French during their colonial period, one to the North, one to the South, to keep an eye on the Fassi (people of Fes) who were notorious trouble makers.
Here is a traditional Moroccan kasbah :
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The curator is on the right.
I pop in to have tea with him when i'm near the place.
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STUNNING!!!

 

[Chefdenoel10]

Tis okay!
Most places here have electricity. In the South, where this particular Kasbah is located (there are thousands) many of the smaller towns, villages and farmsteads have solar panels. Morocco is very much at the forefront of renewable development and usage. Many rural places do still get their water from springs or wells, though. It's great fun going down the hill with your donkey with water barrels on its sides, to fill them up from the well. For the first week. Then it becomes a tad irksome.
These old kasbahs and the surrounding houses are built from wattle and daub - effectively mud and straw, so, every time it rains, which isn't too often, they dissolve a little more. The one I showed is Ait Benhaddou, here you can see the houses from a distance leading up the the kasbah.
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Only a handful of families live here now, though many of the buildings are shops and cafes for the tourists.
The rest of the locals live in the modern concrete buildings on the other side of the river.
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Many towns are like this. Here is Tinejdad where you can see the empty, abandoned wattle and daub buildings in the foreground, slowly dissolving in the rain, and behind them, the occupied,modern concrete new town.
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I could listen to your stories (and pics) FOR HOURS!!!! But I don’t want to take you away from wifey...
wow how amazing your life is compared to mine. Mine stinks! My views are of the neighbors kids and baby pools.. skunks ?
and a very small and meek vegetable garden I decided to grow myself this year..
I can’t believe a pumpkin ACTUALLY came out!!! ? .... ok... SOME things are good here.... but not many. ?
That’s why I like to live vicariously through all of you and your beautiful settings. It’s like I have opened the door to OZ???
I am so happy that I have found this cold dark room.. how ironically weird it might happen to be..?

 

[Chefdenoel10]

Me too ??

me three!! ?

 

[Chefdenoel10]

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She’s doing just fine. I haven’t named her yet. Still calling her rig dog or Rigsy... she stinks no longer and I’ve got to make a vet appointment for her soon. She is very content to be right here though.. my son Really likes her ?

I am so happy for the both of you!!!
Best wishes for a happy future together.
?❤️???

 

[KarenSoCal]

All of you who are fairly new here should read Adam's version of Esio Trot...he's a story teller extraordinaire...

ESIO TROT by Tidgy's Dad.

Now, I expect many of you are familiar with the book, "Esio Trot" by the inimitable Roald Dahl and superbly illustrated by Quentin Blake. I had a copy but before I moved to Morocco sold it, along with thousands of other books, as it was simply too expensive to transport everything we owned out...

www.tortoiseforum.org

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Sleep tight. I won’t be far behind I think.

“Nos Da” brings Lyn to mind.. I miss her too

Good night!

I like Lyn.
My Welsh pun-pal.

 

[CarolM]

The view I posted was to the North.
Here is the view South :
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Note the castle on top of the hill overlooking Rapunzel's Tower.

Hmmm, Is that Charming's castle or the evil Step Mothers castle, I wonder?

 

[CarolM]

Hello all,

The news about our dear Bee really knocked me back this morning It’s been hard to brace myself to enter the CDR. I hope someone has given Chilly and Willy a good hug; they must be so upset

As for me, I have been phenomenally busy. I have had lots of school governor stuff despite my term of office ending at the end of this month.


At the rescue I have been doing extra shifts as we are so short of volunteers due to people having to self isolate, protect someone in their family or having children not in school. It’s hard work and I am so tired after a shift.

Today, I did have the pleasure of feeding a young Kestrel. A small bird of prey that hunts mice and voles. He is all eyes and feet at the moment
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I have also been making face masks and selling the, to raise funds for the rescue. I also made and sold some for my friend’s Guinea Pig Rescue. To date I have sold 230 masks raising over £900 for my wildlife rescue and £275 for my friend’s rescue.

I am sorry I have been absent so long. Life has simply got in the way. I can’t promise things quietening down any time soon, but I will try not to be so neglectful of my CDR friends.

Glad that you are okay. I did see some posts on your nothomeagain instagram. So knew that you were still okay. Well done on the masks and raising of funds. They look really great. And when you get home after a shift, go sit on an armadillo, put your feet up, Willy and Chilly will come and rub your feet and Montgomery will bring you a nice cup of hot chocolate with marshmallows and maybe even a shot of brandy in it too.