*** Warning *** The last picture in this posting is of a dead animal that Tim finds gross and didn't want me to post. The girls and I find it fascinating so I am going to post it anyway. There is your fair warning... *** Over the past week there have been many siting of crazy, wild animals. The peacock was trolling Kew Royal Botanical Gardens while we were eating lunch there last weekend. She was looking for illegal handouts, left behind crumbs and bits that she could steal. For being a peacock, she certainly wasn't picky.
Moving on to the next wild and crazy animal: Sophie! Here she is at Kew Gardens changing from her earlier-in-the blog-Elton John impression to the new and improved and perhaps hipper Bono look. These shades are on her most days. She is really into protecting her eyes! Besides looking like a loon she is now officially acting like a loon. The Terrible 2 1/2 into 3 1/2's have arrived again in our house and I'm not a fan. My sweet, easy baby has become a trantrum throwing drama queen at the drop of hat. Good thing between those trantrums she can still be as sweet as can be.
Sophie finally got her own sun chair - much to everyone's relief. She really enjoyed her fruit snacks in her new Bengal tiger chair. Wild times at the Farrell house. *** WARNING Last picture is next! ***
Personally, I'm not that grossed out by this photo, but I am sorry if you are. There is a growing fox problem in London and the news even hit US news sources earlier:http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/06/07/london.fox.attack/index.html?iref=allsearch
In the article, two London foxes entered a home while the parents were watching TV in the living room through an open rear garden door (this is very common in the summer as NO home here has a/c however there are also no screens on doors or windows). The foxes climbed up one flight of stairs and climbed into the two cribs of 9 month old twins and attacked them. The girls are OK, though they were in the hospital each for a few days.
Anyway, the day of the attack Sophie and I were walking to Abby's school to pick her up and saw this little guy with some bad luck. He has clearly been killed in someone's garden and was set out in the MIDDLE of the sidewalk to be collected by the council. Sophie was so excited by the dead fox she immediately told Abby about it when we got to school and it was requested that we stop by to look at it again on the way home. For some reason I took this picture to share with all of you!
The very next day a fox trotted down the sidewalk in front of me while I was chatting with a neighbor around 8:30 pm just in front of our houses. This time we had Angus, my neighbor's cat, to shoo it away with puffed up back hair and some fairly menacing hisses. I have to say, other than the World Cup, foxes are a hot topic around here at the moment!
Cheerio!
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