Introducing Edwin "Buzz" Aldry - the beast in my belfry

The first time I saw him, he was sunning himself on MY balcony. Quite pleased and content to just lie their lazing around not perturbed in the least bit about me (how rude!!). For a start when I did see him there I truly thought I was hallucinating!!! I had just about done with relocating a wasp hive to a better place that morning - yes again from my balcony and I had stepped out to recover from the ordeal!! So by the time I got back, I thought I'd have a nice quite afternoon reading a book. Had finally got my hands on "Mr Rosenblums's List" by Natasha Solomons and was looking forward to reading this so called "Utterly charming and very funny" book! And there he was spotted.....through the corner of my eye from my couch! A splendid view of Mr "Buzz" Aldry - a garden lizard over a foot in length (NOTE: Over a WHOLE FOOT!!!) drying himself out!!!!

So there I was being held siege for a couple of hours. Invariably resorted to facebooking as an alternative to the now impossible task of hanging the laundry out to dry and I found myself reading about a colleague's pleasant encounter with nature on facebook..... "Cat came meowing at the window. Gave it some polish sausage. It then went for a look around my house and settled on the bottom of my bed for a nap". That's left me wondering (no, no, definitely not thinking of handing out polish sausages to "Buzz" )...to whom should I convey my gratitude for the continuous stream of truly exotic species (species of possums, bats, wasps and now this.. ) visiting my medieval siege tower - my belfry

Of course eventually (when all else fails and fate was sealed to co-exist for the next few hrs!) I had to go through the whole naming ceremony for my very own mr Mr.Flying Trapeze Artist/Mr. Lizzy....hmmm choices choices!!! - James Cook or Columbus or Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin!! Cook as the principal explorer of Australia...Columbus as I don't know just seems to fit the distinguished dude! Or "Buzz" which has a certain ring to it and considering he likes to eat all things that go Buzz!! and Edwin as a first name suits as looks kinda dignified and gentelmanly! So there evolved Mr. Edwin "Buzz" Aldry!!! - first massive-sized lizard to land on my balcony in history!

Any call outs readers, in wanting to adopt a foot long garden lizard(just yell out to yours truly - Collector of all things exotic that creep, crawl, burrow, buzz, etc..and counting)??

Indulgence

Am not one for harping on about gourmet food! I just like good food..

OK! OK! I hear you loud and clear...perhaps a bit of indulgence as a rarity for a truly scrumptious and enriching Parisian experience (I insist I did walk it off by the time we made it into work). Well this was initiated by the cause for socialisation - a team outing at quite an unearthly hour on a cold winter's morning this week at a lil' patisserie under a gorgeous old fig tree in one of the prettiest corners of Brisbane where you can sneak a peak at the Storey bridge.


Since it was in the wee hours of the day and I am not much of a big breakie person, I decided to go for the almond croissant. The first bite had me smitten...was sheer bliss! Mmmm...(too bad I didn't get a chance to take a photo as we were all busily having our mmmm moments..) T'was a real conversation killer until we were done with our munching.

Got to snap a few pics of "Le Bon Choix" on leaving...hmmm...I think I need to go back to take a pic of that almond croissant ;) but le bon choix may cause me to try out the pastries this time though - an unexpected but totally logical choice! ;)

On munching chocolate at the end of a long day!!

Half-thought on munching chocolate at the end of a long day.......

While thinking of the much quoted quote "Life is like a box of chocolates...you never know what you're gonna get"......

... my half thought - and you never know when your gonna run out of chocolates!! Keep munching on I'd say till you can move on to another box full of your favourite which is yours to pick! :) chomp chomp chomp

A lot more than courage!!

Creativity takes courage goes the saying...

....but it takes a lot more to eat your hashed together spur of the moment creation - courage and one hungry tummy!!

Walk-not-about

Yes, I finally did it. Even if it took as good an excuse of making a dash with Gordan Ramsay on a winter evening to drop him off at the library before the Gods rained tears of joy for me!

With Nature as my coach, I finally decided to get on with that much needed, much thought after WALK which turned out to be more like a run with an impending shower (the sky was thinking of raining down on me) and with the setting sun hurrying me on my track.

(and me thinks as i log out "surely, surely, surely walks are only meant for summer...")

Stalked by an ankle biter??

My life is filled with adventures galore.......

Talk about starting the weekend off being stalked along the whole length of a street by a possible ankle biter on my way to the library. There was a whole lot of criss-crossing down the street till I eventually decided to walk the line with the tail gater at my heel. With the miniature terrier cross bulldog (hey, and am sure it so was!!!) at such close quarters to petrified me, it sure painted a pretty picture of me taking my lil doggie for a walk, what with passengers of cars driving past giving us the widest possible smiles and the "ohhhhh, how cuuuuute looks". Sheesh!!!


(Anyway, the dude I guess finally found the house he was looking for as he was missing in action on my way back!)

Hmmm so that proves it, I really do seem to have a knack for attracting stray animals - be it a possum swinging into my balcony , a cat literally landing up on my doorstep and refusing to budge and the latest one a terrier!!

Sudden realisation!!!!

Q. What do you do when you realise that your pet possum and your neighbour shared the same name?????

A. Don't ever look the neighbour in the eye after all those episodes of calling out to the possum on your balcony...."Richard Oh Richarddddddddd, where are youuuuuuuu???" or a "Morning Richhhhhard. How are you going mate?" or "I think I've had enough of you partying all night and I think it's high time you relocate!!")

(Now thinking back, I think it was a welcome relief that Richard tuned into Rickeesha (the possum I mean)!!!!!