Not many people know that I have a second name, in fact, I think it's probably only known by mum and myself. Luckily I'm called by it very seldom because it's quite shameful.. it's.. Sloth.
She gave it to me one day when I had started to 'grow up' and become a bit independent. I was slow, veryvery slow to come to her hand one night and when I did eventually step down on to it, she brought me up to her face and said "You know what your second name is? It's Sloth.
Moving swiftly along.. today was a pretty good day. First of all, it was very cold (read freezing) when we woke up, so we were both extremely glad to have our eggy yumyums and slurps of lapysang tea. It stayed cold too, so she dressed in cold weather gear, kissed Beaky and set off up Yeoman's Row to visit our Lebanese friends to collect stuff that she was giving to mum for charity.
It took WW and her four trips to collect all the stuff that she was donating. Books, three huge bags of linens, lace and crochet trimmings and some lovely silver which will be divided between the 'Crisis' Charity shop in Hackney, Crisis supports local homeless people and this shop is a near neighbour to her opticians in Mare Street and New Horizons in Cadogan Street.
She combed through the linens and the trimmings, separating them into two piles, the silver and the pile of linens will go to Crisis and the trimmings will go to New Horizons. There are people there who want lace and crochet trims but don't want linens, it made her work much easier!
She went up the road a fifth time and stayed for over an hour having a cup of tea and saying "Thank you for the donations" then came home.. to a cosy flat! She feblt the difference as soon as she came through the front door. It was toasty warm.. how strange because it wasn't warm outside, that was for sure!
She suddenly disappeared back out of the front door, then reappeared literally a minute later with a huge grin on her face, the upstairs neighbour has arrived. Her flat must have been chilly when she arrived from goodness knows where. (She has mulpile homes, as you do when you're a Venezuelan (by birth) lawyer now carrying a UK passport who specialises in 'taking' companies overseas and basing them in Panama).
In fact, her home must have been absolutely freezing when she arrived for we haven't been heating it with heat from our boiler, that's for sure! HeeHee, maybe we won't have to switch our boiler on in December after all. That's good news when you're saving up for something and being frugal, isn't it?
She had another piece of good news. The invoices have arrived for the allotments and due to the huge amount of rain that we have experienced this year, the water bill for each plot for the coming year is only £4.70!
Phew.. that's certainly worth a Yubba-Dubba-Doo, don't you agree? Now it's goodnight from us both.
GeeGee (Sloth) Parrot.
November 12th, 2017.
She gave it to me one day when I had started to 'grow up' and become a bit independent. I was slow, veryvery slow to come to her hand one night and when I did eventually step down on to it, she brought me up to her face and said "You know what your second name is? It's Sloth.
Moving swiftly along.. today was a pretty good day. First of all, it was very cold (read freezing) when we woke up, so we were both extremely glad to have our eggy yumyums and slurps of lapysang tea. It stayed cold too, so she dressed in cold weather gear, kissed Beaky and set off up Yeoman's Row to visit our Lebanese friends to collect stuff that she was giving to mum for charity.
It took WW and her four trips to collect all the stuff that she was donating. Books, three huge bags of linens, lace and crochet trimmings and some lovely silver which will be divided between the 'Crisis' Charity shop in Hackney, Crisis supports local homeless people and this shop is a near neighbour to her opticians in Mare Street and New Horizons in Cadogan Street.
She combed through the linens and the trimmings, separating them into two piles, the silver and the pile of linens will go to Crisis and the trimmings will go to New Horizons. There are people there who want lace and crochet trims but don't want linens, it made her work much easier!
She went up the road a fifth time and stayed for over an hour having a cup of tea and saying "Thank you for the donations" then came home.. to a cosy flat! She feblt the difference as soon as she came through the front door. It was toasty warm.. how strange because it wasn't warm outside, that was for sure!
She suddenly disappeared back out of the front door, then reappeared literally a minute later with a huge grin on her face, the upstairs neighbour has arrived. Her flat must have been chilly when she arrived from goodness knows where. (She has mulpile homes, as you do when you're a Venezuelan (by birth) lawyer now carrying a UK passport who specialises in 'taking' companies overseas and basing them in Panama).
In fact, her home must have been absolutely freezing when she arrived for we haven't been heating it with heat from our boiler, that's for sure! HeeHee, maybe we won't have to switch our boiler on in December after all. That's good news when you're saving up for something and being frugal, isn't it?
She had another piece of good news. The invoices have arrived for the allotments and due to the huge amount of rain that we have experienced this year, the water bill for each plot for the coming year is only £4.70!
Phew.. that's certainly worth a Yubba-Dubba-Doo, don't you agree? Now it's goodnight from us both.
GeeGee (Sloth) Parrot.
November 12th, 2017.
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