tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32386502.post3895676065476515608..comments2023-08-23T17:56:32.236+02:00Comments on Where in the world is Gwannel Sandiego?: Sanksgeeveeng etc.Gwanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13127784431543135980noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32386502.post-66360723518818190062009-12-07T22:57:53.699+01:002009-12-07T22:57:53.699+01:00Trust the French eh?Trust the French eh?Gwanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13127784431543135980noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32386502.post-27807378445857845742009-12-07T08:43:58.445+01:002009-12-07T08:43:58.445+01:00Watch out next time you are in the park!!
France ...Watch out next time you are in the park!!<br /><br />France was in mourning today for one of its oldest and best-loved lotharios, a giant tortoise named Kiki, who died at the age of 146.<br /><br />Staff at the Ménagerie du Jardin des Plantes in Paris announced that its veteran resident had succumbed last week to an infection.<br /><br />They paid tribute to the zoo's "doyen", whose distinctive personality and "demonstrative lovemaking" had made him a favourite with the French public.<br /><br />"We are rather upset to have lost Kiki. He had been here for such a long time …that we had kind of thought of him as eternal," said Michel Saint Jalme, the deputy director of the Ménagerie. "He had a kind of charisma … a certain personality."<br /><br />Kiki, who arrived in the French capital as an exotic newcomer from the Seychelles in 1923, when his species was on the brink of extinction, was never slow to use that charisma to full effect.<br /><br />According to Marie-Claude Bomsel, a vet at the zoo, he was so vigorous in his pursuit of female tortoises that his grunts could be heard from the other end of the zoo and the Jardin des Plantes.<br /><br />"To be honest, from time to time I even saw him go after a wheelbarrow. You see what we were dealing with," Bomsel told French radio. "That was one of his characteristics. We all loved him."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32386502.post-74660406206826867732009-12-05T06:21:46.052+01:002009-12-05T06:21:46.052+01:00Happy Birthday! Lots of love and best wishes for ...Happy Birthday! Lots of love and best wishes for a lovely day. M xxxxBossyinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32386502.post-49664757396646685552009-12-04T22:05:04.562+01:002009-12-04T22:05:04.562+01:00Happy Birthday
D XXHappy Birthday<br />D XXAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32386502.post-10993516243535495782009-12-01T10:06:24.722+01:002009-12-01T10:06:24.722+01:00Best football team - the reds.Best football team - the reds.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32386502.post-68573279741669216602009-12-01T00:28:01.437+01:002009-12-01T00:28:01.437+01:00Oh - I've got Listeners in the recycle bags wh...Oh - I've got Listeners in the recycle bags which I'll get out and bring! (Good job I missed the last collection.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32386502.post-80620202478150530932009-11-30T22:13:32.785+01:002009-11-30T22:13:32.785+01:00Ha ha it's a long 'un though. But yeah, it...Ha ha it's a long 'un though. But yeah, it's good - style of a Victorian novel but like "the other side of life" they didn't talk about at the time. I would like some magazines bringing though. Everyone keeps (well not so much anymore) asking if I brought any authentic NZ materials with me. Er, sorry, no!Gwanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13127784431543135980noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32386502.post-32068905231221735892009-11-30T22:03:48.508+01:002009-11-30T22:03:48.508+01:00oooohhhh I'm so excited about hunting down tha...oooohhhh I'm so excited about hunting down that book as soon as I get home! (Very cunning - this way, you get me to BRING IT TO YOU SO YOU CAN READ IT AGAIN! Mum xAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com