of sparrows and eggs

sunday morning at easter camp was such an adventure for me. i got to go to one of the main meetings. oh clumsy aubergines. it was so very very noisy and there were so very many BIG SCARY people up the front near the stage and they were all dancing to very loud music. mummy said that the area near the stage was called the mosh pit and that it was a dangerous place for little owls to be. so i decided not to wander off because i didn't want to become moshed.

later on the main speaker was introduced and everyone sat down and it got quieter. the speaker talked for ever such a long time. i was so very disappointed because i thought the speaker might mention me. after all, i was the only owl at easter camp and i thought that that was something very special. but he didn't mention me. not even once.

he did however point out sebastian several times. sebastian was a sparrow who managed to sneak into the main meeting when no one was looking and he kept flying around and around. mummy said she thought he was looking for a way out but i think she was wrong. i think sebastian just wanted attention. at one point he even pooped on some people. if i could fly i could have got the speaker to notice me too. but I would never poop on anyone. that would be a very bad thing to do.

i thought that it would be sensible for me to give sebastian some lessons on good bird manners but he left as soon as the meeting had finished so I didn’t get the chance.

and then mummy took me back to the motel room and do you know what i found? i found a great big bowl of chocolate easter eggs on the table for me and msfs. oh squishy chocolate mice! i was so very happy and had been longing for chocolate easter eggs and then my happiness was completed.

in the afternoon msfs said we should have an easter egg hunt. he said he would hide all the blue eggs and i could hide all the pink ones and we would try to find each others. oh it was so much fun. and we decided we would save some of the eggs for breakfast the next day because that was a grown up thing to do and because eggs are a breakfast food and oh what a yummy breakfast it turned out to be.

and after the yummy breakfast we had to pack up all our things because it was the day we were going home. it took ages and ages to make sure i had everything. i hope that i didn’t leave anything behind.

then me and msfs had to spend the WHOLE DAY in the back of the car while mummy and daddy helped pack things up back at the camp. we didn’t get home until 9.30pm. i was so very pooped. i did have such a wonderful time but it was nice to get home and see leonardo, oxford and the others again.

there really is no place like home.

of mud and donuts

you know the cyclone i was telling you about? well i survived it! me, octavia owl survived the cyclone.

i really really want mummy to buy me one of those t-shirts which says “i survived the cyclone of 17” but I think she’s forgotten i asked her which is a bit sad really because i stood by mummy when the cyclone was happening and i told her i would protect her.

the cyclone arrived a little before one o’clock on the friday morning. everything was very still and very quiet at quarter to one. mummy and i were sitting there just waiting. and then, about five minutes later BAMMM, the cyclone hit.

i just couldn’t believe it! we were in the middle of a cyclone and get this, mummy was watching the cyclone from the window. i tried so very very hard to pull mummy away from danger but i just couldn’t because i am so very little and mummy is so very very big and she told me there was no reason to be scared. oh invisible aubergines! didn’t she realise that i wasn’t scared and was trying to protect her?? 

i felt so very very responsible for keeping mummy safe because she does stupid things sometimes. silly mummy. in my very humble owl opinion i am surprised that she is still standing.

mummy said the cyclone was a bit of an anti-climax and that it wasn’t that strong but i can tell you that if i had stepped outside at that very moment – i wouldn’t be writing this blog post now. or ever. that was the fiercest wind i had ever lived through that's for sure.


and in the morning we went and inspected the camp site. it was so very very muddy because there had been a lot of rain as well as wind. i didn’t want to get muddy so mummy let me ride on her gumboot and i got to see the WHOLE CAMP SITE! it was HUGE. most of the tents had been taken down before the cyclone arrived but a few were left up and they didn’t look very good afterwards.

and do you know what else i saw? i saw a donut truck called the "super donut hero"! and they sold little donuts which were just the right size for me. i was so very very sad because the donut people were only setting up and wouldn’t be selling donuts until later on in the day. it just wasn’t very fair because i was so very hungry for donuts. but do you know what mummy did?

oh puffed up chocolate mice! on the saturday morning mummy bought me and msfs the most amazing donuts for breakfast. donuts with bacon and bananas and maple syrup and whipped cream. i can tell you, i was one super stuffed  little owl by the end of them. they were the bestest. 

a real live cyclone

last wednesday was such an exciting day for me and mr smiley face sunshine. mummy and daddy were taking us camping! oh super squeaky chocolate mice. what an adventure it would be. we would be sleeping out under the stars and i felt like the most importantest owl ever borned.

but it wasn’t all fun and excitement you know, not by a thousand aubergines it wasn’t.

we had to wait the WHOLE DAY for daddy to come home from work before we could head off on our adventures and just as we were about to leave mummy said that she was putting us in one of the bags to keep us safe because we were too small to wear the seat belts in the car.

i’m sure we would have been safe on mummy’s lap but she stuffed us in the bag anyway.

i wasn’t very happy about this and decided that we should search the bag for mummy’s chocolate supply. i was so very very sure that mummy would have packed a big supply of chocolate because mummy likes chocolate so we searched and we searched but we didn’t find any. the bag was mostly filled with clothes and the only interesting thing in the bag was a torch. so we played with the torch and made funny faces by torchlight but then we got bored and fell asleep and woke up when mummy unpacked us at the motel room.

that’s right! we were staying at a motel and not camping.

can you imagine how upset i felt? i thought i was going to be a camping owl and sleep in a tent and sit around a camp fire and roast marshmallows because that’s what you do when you go camping but mummy said that she had never told me we were going camping. she said that her and daddy were HELPING with the camp which was a bit different from actually camping and because they would be working really hard they would need to get a decent amount of sleep and that’s why we were staying at a motel.

oh pineapple flavoured aubergines! i was so very very disappointed. but do you know what? it turned out that it was a very good thing that we were not camping because the next day we heard the most dreadful of all news!! there was a real live cyclone in new zealand and it was heading our way!

i was so very very scared. i am only a little owl you know and if i ever got caught in a cyclone i’d whizz around and around and around and i would get ever so dizzy and end up well, i don’t know where.

all bruised and battered. lost.

forever.

going camping

oh speckled chocolate mice! there’s so very much to tell you about my adventures over the past five days but i’ll start at the very beginning because it’s a very good place to start.

last wednesday i found out that mummy and daddy were going away to help at a youth easter camp and wouldn’t be back until the next monday.

as you can imagine, many thoughts raced through my little head.

- who would feed me?
- who would play games with me?
- who would call the ambulance if i got food poisoning?
- who would keep be safe if we got infested by white tailed spiders?
- who would keep me dry if the house got flooded?

oh the horror of it all. what would happen if i got owlnapped? mummy would be sorry then wouldn’t she! well, i decided i had to take things into my own little wings and i told mummy that she was being so terribly irresponsible for not taking me with her.

oh gigantic basket of aubergines if ever there was one, mummy can be so melodramatic sometimes. she looked at me and then rolled her eyes and gave a great big sigh. then she launched into a tirade of how busy her and daddy would be and how there would be hundreds and hundreds of big scary people running around and that it would be no place for a little owl like me. but do you know what? i gave mummy my most fiercest glare ever and eventually she gave in and said that she would take me and that msfs could come too.

oh chocolate mice in abundance. i was so very very excited to be going camping.

owl overboard! owl overboard!

 

oh great sopping wet aubergines!

odeletta fell in the river! odeletta fell in the river! 

she was riding on the back of debbie duck in the middle of the river in our garden while mummy took photos of her and everything was going really really well. i was watching the whole thing from my safe place on the ladders but then there was this giant gust of wind and it blew odeletta into the river. 

i was so very very scared and i called and i called and i called for mummy to go and rescue odeletta but I think mummy was just as scared as me because she just stood there taking photos. disappearing aubergines! odeletta could have drowned and all mummy could think about was taking photos.

but then odeletta surfaced and was able to swim back to debbie duck and was safe again. brave odeletta (which is more than i can say for mummy). it did give me ever such a big fright. 

odeletta was ever so muddy and wet. mummy took her inside and washed her in the sink and then dried her with a nice big fluffy towel. poor odeletta. she looked overcome with horror. i’ve never seen such big eyes. 

i’m going to be especially nice to her this evening. odeletta is one very brave little owl.