COLD DARK ROOM

[Lyn W]

And good morning to those waking up before I come online.
Happy Procrastination Day !
And Happy Read a Book Day !

I love reading but don't know if I can manage anything other than a Mister Men book in one day.
and I might wait until tomorrow to celebrate Procrastination Day.

 

[Lyn W]

good mornooning all, Sunday the day of rest...

i think not! awake at 0600, and i do housework?! something no quite right there :/. quick coffee break then back to it...

2nd place , wow my bad jokes must have saved me and thankfully i have a lot.

Good morning John,
When you've finished your housework there you can come and do mine if you like?
We'll look forward to those jokes!

 

[Lyn W]

Good morning Lyn. Finally; a solution to 'The Issue Of Oli,' and not The Issue Of The Middle East!'

Thanks your advice, I'll give it a try, but I bet you it won't work. By the way Oli still has not touched the cuttlefish. I wonder why.

Lola will go weeks without touching cuttle fish,
I scrape a little on his food occasionally just to top him up but his diet provides most calcium.
I have read that torts seem to know when they need calcium and will go for it then.
Lola will take some if I hold it near him.
But they need uv from the sun or lamps for it to do any good.

Thinly spread the Mazuri - he won't even know it's there

 

[Gillian M]

Lola will go weeks without touching cuttle fish,
I scrape a little on his food occasionally just to top him up but his diet provides most calcium.
I have read that torts seem to know when they need calcium and will go for it then.
Lola will take some if I hold it near him.
But they need uv from the sun or lamps for it to do any good.

Thinly spread the Mauri - he won't even know it's there

One thing I am sure of Lyn, Oli is getting enough and more than enough sun. I'll apply what you just suggested instead of stuffing the mizuri into Oli's mouth. Funny...it's like forcing a baby to eat something he/she doesn't like or isn't used to.... LOL!

Thanks you help. I do need ideas/tips here, I admit.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

But who'd want to?

Sadly, Millions of people can't read, don't read or won't read.
I think I said, the Moroccans read 8 pages a year on average.
Most of my English Literature degree level students have never read a book in any language,except, sometimes the Quran.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Man! How have I been missing this thread!?!?!

I suspect you have been hiding it from me. I LOVE ME a cold dark room!!!

Hello, Chrissy and a very warm welcome to the silliness that is The Cold Dark Room.
Pull up an armadillo to sit on, careful you don't sit on a hedgehog and have a coffee.
Relax and see if you can hit Noel with a jellyfish frisbee.
And have three points to begin.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Speaking of reading a book...
I'm about to begin "Stiff"
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I've heard good things I just finished a book club book that was supposed to be a sort of inspirational bit and it HURT MY SOUL, so I'm looking forward to some creepy science.

Looks interesting, i might have to get a copy myself.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Black Adder, first season, last episode.

Really??
Gosh, i am ashamed I didn't know that.

 

[Rutibegga]

Good morning! My partner just brought me coffee in bed, so I've not even made it downstairs for tortoise-staring yet.

I see we are discussing reading. I'm currently re-reading The Fellowship of the Ring, as well as reading Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. I read a lot, though.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

A balloon fire bomb. The first weapon capable of transcontinental strikes.

Correct , thousands were sent and only a thousand or so made it to American soil.
America is a pretty big place, so the majority landed miles from any people, many had lost their bombs in flight, one or two may have started minor forest fires, but it was hardly the terror weapon the Japanese were hoping for.
They used the jet stream, which nobody else knew about at the time.
Unfortunately, the church picnic in Oregon was the exception, someone moved the landed balloon out of curiosity and it exploded killing a woman and five children.
Japanese children made the paper balloons and years later they apologized to the people of Oregon for what they had unwittingly done.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

sushi, blowfish ?

The blowfish is a similar name - fugu.
Between 30 and a hundred people get sick from eating this in restaurants in Japan every year and up to half of them die.
It is generally thought that it is the taste or just the daring that attracts diners, but actually the fish gets you high, if it doesn't kill you.
Tetradotoxin is the chemical and the chefs are specially trained in filleting them and have to eat their own cooking before they are allowed to serve the public.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

good mornooning all, Sunday the day of rest...

i think not! awake at 0600, and i do housework?! something no quite right there :/. quick coffee break then back to it...

2nd place , wow my bad jokes must have saved me and thankfully i have a lot.

They did have a bit to do with it yes.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Hi Boss. That exactly what I've been doing with Oli: I stick the mazuri into his mouth while it's open and he's eating his favourite: Roman lettuce.

Hi, Gillian, sounds like a success so far.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

I love reading but don't know if I can manage anything other than a Mister Men book in one day.
and I might wait until tomorrow to celebrate Procrastination Day.

I might do it today.
Then again.....

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Good morning! My partner just brought me coffee in bed, so I've not even made it downstairs for tortoise-staring yet.

I see we are discussing reading. I'm currently re-reading The Fellowship of the Ring, as well as reading Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. I read a lot, though.

The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings are among my very favourites, and I like Tennessee Williams too.
Good stuff.

 

[Moozillion]

Really??
Gosh, i am ashamed I didn't know that.

It was never my intention to catch you out- my sincere apologies.
Please give yourself 5 points since my question was really much too specific to have been submitted as a general sort of question.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

It was never my intention to catch you out- my sincere apologies.
Please give yourself 5 points since my question was really much too specific to have been submitted as a general sort of question.

Most of the questions I pose are designed to catch people out.
But i thought I knew The Black Adder pretty well.
No points for me! I should have googled it.
I should have known it.
Morning, Bea, plans for the day ?

 

[Moozillion]

Most of the questions I pose are designed to catch people out.
But i thought I knew The Black Adder pretty well.
No points for me! I should have googled it.
I should have known it.
Morning, Bea, plans for the day ?

The usual Sunday plans: grocery shopping then some cooking for the week.
Hubby will probably take an afternoon nap: he and a fellow photographer friend got Press Passes to be on the field at the first LSU football game of the season. He was terribly excited: even rented a special VERY expensive lens to capture movement with. But there was a huge thunderstorm over the whole area. The teams played about 10 min, then had to stop due to lightening strikes. The game started at 6:30 pm, and by 9:30 pm they were still in official "wait-and-see-if-the-lightening-stops" mode!!! People down here (not self and hubby) are quite mad when it comes to their football (gridiron to our UK friends)! He got home after midnight, poor guy.
While he naps, I'll be assembling the stand for the aquarium I bought to house my baby mud turtle, once I get him! I like to have things up and running smoothly for some time before adding my critters!

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

I'm reading a Doctor Who Book," Forever Autumn" about Halloween monsters in America at the moment. Moderate.
Wifey's reading Tom Sharpes' "Wilt in Nowhere", and laughing aloud every few minutes.
Tidgy's reading " The Brothers Karamazov "by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. She's not laughing at all.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

The usual Sunday plans: grocery shopping then some cooking for the week.
Hubby will probably take an afternoon nap: he and a fellow photographer friend got Press Passes to be on the field at the first LSU football game of the season. He was terribly excited: even rented a special VERY expensive lens to capture movement with. But there was a huge thunderstorm over the whole area. The teams played about 10 min, then had to stop due to lightening strikes. The game started at 6:30 pm, and by 9:30 pm they were still in official "wait-and-see-if-the-lightening-stops" mode!!! People down here (not self and hubby) are quite mad when it comes to their football (gridiron to our UK friends)! He got home after midnight, poor guy.
While he naps, I'll be assembling the stand for the aquarium I bought to house my baby mud turtle, once I get him! I like to have things up and running smoothly for some time before adding my critters!

Good luck with the stand.
Hope you have some fun today, too.