AWWW MONDAY - WEEKEND FEBRUARY 22

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WEEKEND

My cleaning lady is still in Ireland so the other one came on Saturday morning. I am very happy with her, she is real good and a very friendly woman. Unfortunately leaving our house and driving a few km an 18 year old girl who had mixed up the pedals bumped in her car and damaged it severely. And as it is usually, you are innocent but you have the most paperwork and worries !

In the afternoon I visited a friend who had a head surgery, she had a ulcer in the brain, fortunately not a bad one. Finally it was not so severe, after 3 h she was in intensive care and a week later at home. They had made the operation through the nose, so she looked completely normal with nicely combed hair. She felt a bit dizzy and weak but could walk around in her apartment. I found her real nice and also relieved because you never know how you will get out of a brain operation ! That's like the spine !

We are "blessed" with another storm called Helen it is just arriving and I see the trees shaking in the strong wind.

So what to do on a Sunday when you risk to be blown away ? Go to the movies ! And that's what we did.

Little Women, the French title was  "Les quatre filles du Dr. March "The four daughters of Dr. March"

MY FAVORITE ANIMAL SOUND

Besides the various birds which chirp here around before they get caught by cats and  dogs barking sometimes the whole day, which gets on my nerves, I had the charming sound of 4 cats. I point out "had" because sadly 2 of them passed away in the last 2 years. But of course they are not physically here anymore, but still in my heart.

I recognized immediately who was "talking" the biggest cat

called Kim made a soft little meow, hardly to hear like a little kitten, which didn't fit to her body at all.

The other female Pookie was grey and had, what I would call a normal meow as all street cats

The third and still getting on my nerves is little Rosie. She is a very little cat but has a loud voice. Unfortunately when she was out and comes in she announces her arrival with loud meows, even when it is 3 am. She doesn't care if it is day or night, she just has to tell us that she is back ! And I never had asked her to do so !

The worst is Arthur 18 years old but his voice hasn't changed. He still sings operas

but not like a Pavarotti, but rather like I would imagine a cat in a Hitchcock movie, or one who on a graveyard who scares people to dead. He still surprises us and I don't talk aboutthe reaction of our guests. He does this mostly when he wants to eat and as he eats a lot he makes a lot of noise too.

What I also know is of course the moo of a cow, and other farm animals. When we first moved here I hated a rooster who crowed at 4 am and woke up the whole area. One day it stopped so I suppose somebody had complained or he had landed in a cooking pot.

Camels make strange sounds with their tongue, difficult to describe and you better step back if you don't want to get a shower.

There is also the snake whistle or the quack quack of a frog.

The friend's parrot who asked us "are you going to bed ?" when we left doesn't sound like a bird but rather like a human. When he doesn't speak he screams, not a very nice noise.

But the best sound for me I have learned on Internet thanks to YouTube ! An Australian friend talked about a bird called Kookaburrra



who laughed every morning very early in her garden and woke her up ! I had never seen or heard such a bird and now I want one ! waking up with a laughing bird can only bring a lucky day !





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