Posts under ‘Pets & Other Animals’

Tereza kept stroking Karenin’s head, which was quietly resting in her lap, while something like the following ran through her mind: There’s no particular merit in being nice to one’s fellow man. She had to treat the other villagers decently, because otherwise she couldn’t live there. Even with Tomas, she was obliged to behave lovingly [...]

When you’re beyond calling a bird a ‘bird’, you call it a ‘Pink-necked Green Pigeon’ or a ‘Pacific Swallow’ or whatever its species is.
When you have pets, you tend to call an individual of that same certain species by the name you give your pet, even when that individual isn’t your pet.
I was [...]

When Tania called me from Sydney yesterday, I was still in bed. It took me a while to digest what she was saying, but when it came through, I couldn't get back to sleep. Knowing that this day might come, I thought I'd have expected it. Expected it, yes, but expecting is not the same [...]

It took us three years to teach Banjo how to say ‘good morning’ in Japanese. He doesn’t like Jap, but picks up Cantonese, English and Mandarin real fast. Thus little did we expect him to come up with up so many variations of a combination of the English “good morning!” and the Japanese “ohayo!” within [...]

Dofu… not me.