Furry Friday on Saturday... In Loving Memory

SIMI 

was Welshcakes Limoncello's dog from 19 December 1998 to 8 January 2015

she was the most beautiful dog in the world and even though I never met her she will be missed by me...

Wasn't she gorgeous..?

Nobody could ever replace Simi but Bertie-Pierre came from the local rescue centre down the road in Bagheria, which is somewhere in Sicily...

Hasn't she got lovely eyes?!

(Welshcakes quote: "Bertie-Pierre is a girl. Oops!")

WISHING A FANTASTIC WEEKEND TO Y'ALL...!

The Etruscan Shrew: Smallest Mammal in the World

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The Etruscan shrew Suncus etruscus; by weight it is the tiniest mammal in the world...

It is native to Southern Europe and parts of Asia including Burma...

This little guy is fully grown...!

Wishing y'all a fantabulous weekend!

Singing Mice of the American Forests...

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Deep in the jungles of Costa Rica and Panama, the Central American singing mouse Scotinomys teguina chirrups and chirps to avoid fights and confrontations with his neighbours...

Pygmy Shrews, Harvest Mice and Roborovski Hamsters: tiniest mammals in the world!

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THE EURASIAN PYGMY SHREW

(Sorex minutus)

weighing in at just 4g

with a 2inch (52mm) body and 32mm (1¾inch) tail

is the tiniest mammal in Europe

and the second tiniest in the world

(after the African pygmy mouse)

In a hand: to scale:~

How tiny and cute!

It's actually slightly smaller than the exceedingly agile Eurasian harvest mouse (Micromys minutus)

Which is very tiny and cute too!

Also very little in comparison to the human hand:

And quite a lot smaller than the Mongolian pygmy hamster

(Phodopus roborovskii)

~ better known as the roborovski hammy,

which is the tiniest hammy in the world

and, at just 50mm/2inches no longer in the body

but which weighs an average 20-25g ~ 5-6 times more

How delightful! This one's a teenager:

 

Pygmy shrew on Youtube:

Roborovski hamsters in the wild

(Northern China):~

Yes, as my American friends like to say, they are indeed

"SO ADORABLE!"

(We in Britain tend to prefer "delightful" ~ and of course they're both!)

WISHING Y'ALL A VERY FURRY WEEKEND INDEED!

Fat, Furry Dormice for the Weekend...

I HAVEN'T BEEN BY LATELY because I've been too busy composing my work of Great Literature..! Which is not a memoir. And not about drugs in any way... (Wow!) It's a children's book. More details (if) and when it's finished...

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Anyway here's some little furry animals for Furry Friday on Saturday...

A fat dormouse...

(Latin name: Glis glis.)

... Also named the edible dormouse, as the Romans originally imported them to the British isles as a tasty rodent snack!

This one looks more like an American grey squirrel...

A common or hazel dormouse... isn't he cute!!

Latin name: Muscardinus avellanarius.

This is the only dormouse species indiginous to the UK...

... with big glittery black beady eyes!

And quite tame!

... when winter comes he gets very sleepy indeed!

(The name comes from the French dormir, to sleep... il dort...

... WISHING Y'ALL A VERY FURRY WEEKEND INDEED!

The Most Beautiful Birds in the World

    feathery friday on saturday   Who can name the most beautiful birds in the world? Well here are five good candidates...     SWANS a white mute swan and an Australian black swan  

EAGLES this is a Scottish golden eagle  

CONURES these are sun conures, some of the brightest parrots in the world  
  BLUE TITS favourite British garden birds  
  HUMMINGBIRDS
not sure of the specific species, but isn't it wonderful...     LAUGHING PARROT I think this is a green amazon...       wishing y'all a very chirpy weekend!

I Love Harvest Mice

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Wishing Y'all A Tiny, Furry Weekend...

Spiny Mice

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Real Mice... With Spines!

Wishing y'all a Spiny Weekend... But not too spiny...

Orange-Yellow Monkeys

          FURRY FRIDAY ON SATURDAY!   ORDINARILY I'm not a huge fan of monkeys; they're too humanoid to be cute... but aren't these yellow ones the furriest entertainers you've ever seen? Does anybody know what types they are? Because despite my best efforts at googling, I still haven't a clue what they're called...
 
  "Take a leaf outta my book..."  

  Real Monkeys of Orange County  
  "I want my Mummy!"  
  Monkey Correctional Centre: ~ "Lemme out!"  
  Designer primate:~ monkey feet in pollen orange by Manolo Blahnik; furry head by Philip Treacy; fur coat: Fendi     *******   FURRY ADOPTION: MOUSEY MONKEY; ORANGE BABY KITTY-CAT!  


WISHING Y'ALL A VERY FURRY WEEKEND INDEED!     *******

The Tasmanian Devil!

タスマニアの悪魔






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They're the size of a small dog...

Their behaviour is famously rude...

Or intimidating..
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But aren't the little ones cute!










WISHING YOU ALL A VERY FURRY WEEKEND!  *******

~~~Music by Barbra Streisand:~~~

SOMEONE I USED TO LOVE

ALL I ASK OF YOU This is take 5 from the actual recording session

Music and Me

HERE'S the theme tune I was telling you about yesterday. Aparently it was written specially for the film but it sounds to me like a classic piece...
The piano theme that I like so much doesn't come in till 1 minute 20:~~~~~~~

MUSIC FROM THE OTHER BOLEYN GIRL




Yesterday I spent ages searching out a best version of Like a Prayer, because the music was going round and round my head. Here we have it:

MADONNA: LIKE A PRAYER LIVE (STICKY AND SWEET)



My favourite singers are Sinéad O'Connor and Barbra Streisand. I think the female voice is far superior to its male counterpart. I even read in the paper that men don't pay attention to women because the female voice is pitched to be interpreted by the male brain as music. Never heard so much cow-shite in my life, but who knows, maybe they have a point?

SINÉAD O'CONNOR: THIS IS A REBEL SONG

Don't be swayed by the title, as she points out, this is actually a love song:
And doesn't she look so much better with hair~??!




BARBRA STREISAND: EVERGREEN

From 1976 A Star is Born, featuring Kris Kristofferson:



Here is Elton John performing one of his old hits with the defunct boyband Blue. Usually I hate boybands ~ all that phoney heart-grabbing "I just want to get in your knickers" insincerity. Ukkh. But this is a good tune...

 BLUE FT. ELTON JOHN: SORRY SEEMS TO BE THE HARDEST WORD




AND JUST SO'S THE DAY CAN BE COMPLETE, HERE'S A FUNNY PHOTO FOR Y'ALL

Roborovski Hamsters, the Family Conference

WISHING A FURRY WEEKEND TO YOU ALL!

The Furriest Roborovskis

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ROBOROVSKI HAMSTERS are the cutest rodents in the world!
Beady-eyed ...  
 And very tiny ...  
 Highly social ...  
 See how miniature a fully-grown robo is in relation to a human hand...  
 Once tamed, they enjoy posing ...  
 Going for a ramble under the egg-box...  
 After a hard day exploring the monkey-nuts...  
 The baby robos fall into deepest sleep...  
 ... And back home to Mummy and Daddy...

*******Last but not least... VIDEO!   Here are my three late hammies: Bashful, Itchy and Spherical in their one and only starring role on film... Aren't they pretty..!    Here are some roborovski hamsters in the wild in northern China...   WISHING Y'ALL A CHARMING WEEKEND!!