counting sheep...

lewis is feeling a lot better, you'll be pleased to hear.  but as for me, well, i've had some difficulties sleeping lately.

even counting sheep has not helped, as you can see.

so i took lewis's advice (for a change.  i usually don't listen to him when he says that i eat too many cakes and things)...  i went to see his therapist!

here we all are after the therapy.  lewis said he was drinking wine to celebrate feeling much better.  although he didn't feel better the next day.  sometimes gorilla's are silly.

you'll be pleased to hear that i am now dreaming of fields of sheep.  there are always lots of them.  i'm so pleased i don't have to try counting them anymore!

lots of love and sweet dreams (or dreams of sweets) nora xxx

In Treatment...

Hello all!  Lewis here.  I haven't been on here for a while, I know.  Very sorry.  Unfortunately all the work I have been doing has made me a bit stressed.  It doesn't help that I cannot tell you about the work, as it is all very top secret.  Anyway, things got so bad, that I actually went into therapy!

Strange, you may think.  A handsome, intelligent gorilla needing therapy.  But it happens to the best of us and there is no shame in it.  Anyway.  Here I am with my therapist.  He made me talk about lots of things.

It was very helpful.  Even Nora is thinking of going because she keeps having nightmares about falling out of a tree (apparently, that happens to pandas.  A lot).

 
My therapist and I got on really well.

So well, in fact, that he gave me a book to read and I even ended up helping him!  He gets stress too apparently!

I shall go and see him again, as we got on so well and he was very helpful.  I would recommend it!

Just popping off now to eat a banana.

Lots of love and happy thoughts,

Lewis MAD (obviously this means Master of Animal Detective and not that I actually am mad (mind you, I think my therapist is!)) xxx

monkey olympics

yay!  it's monkey olympics time!  we in the fluffy-hair house have been waiting for this for a long time.  monkey did very well with his high bar gymnastics routine as you can see.

but monkey brother unfortunately fell during his routine.  oh dear. 

but he recovered well and went on to win the 10m sprint.

look at him go!!



in the end, monkey won gold for his high bar routine and monkey brother won gold in the 10m sprint.  we are all very proud of them.  i have heard a rumour that their medals have chocolate inside, so i am off to wade through the crowds of animals to test out this rumour (i hope it is true as i have only eaten strawberries today).

lots of love, nora the panda xxx

game goes sour

we decided to play a game today.  we are helping lime the tree frog with his speaking skills.  he has some special needs (as you can see, he looks a bit like a mentalist, which lewis says is not a very nice thing to say: apparently its not very pc. but a pc is a computer, so i'm a bit confused).  anyway.  he finds it hard to speak (he just whistles a lot - and still annoyingly jumps up and down a lot - the other day he shook the chair so much with all his jumping that the cake in my hand fell on the floor!).  anyway.  the game was a describing game.  it started off quite interesting, as you can see.

lime accurately managed to describe me as the one with the sweet tooth.  i think he is quite clever really.  lewis wasn't too happy that he got caught picking his nose.  and then everyone started fussing a lot because monkey stubbed his toe.

they went on and on about it.  so much so that i fell asleep (us pandas do that a lot).  i wasn't too happy about the comments they made about me.

we then had an argument over the cards above.  we each wanted to have all of them.  lewis, of course, said he should have the genius description card because he is MAD (master of animal detective).  lewis ended up getting so annoyed that nobody could make a decision, that he stormed off, as you can see below.

he was muttering something about letting one go (it wasn't me).

so everyone is now in a mood (apart from monkey, who is always happy).  it was a silly game anyway.  i hope we can play a better game tomorrow.

lots of love, nora the panda x

Reading Group

Hello all!  You'll be pleased to hear that I finally have some leisure time (yippee!).  As you know, I have been working very hard lately on a 'top secret' case.  Poor Bond. Badger Bond. is still working on it, but I am not allowed to tell you any more than that.

We've also had a visitor staying with us - a travelling salesbear called Ollie.  He sold us some books, so we decided to start a Fluffy-Hair House reading group, as you can see.

 

At the moment, we are reading, "The case of the missing banana."  It is very interesting.  Of course it helps me develop my detective skills further (as I worked on a very similar case in January, as you may recall) and Nora enjoys it because of the mention of banana cake and banana sundae (indeed, it is banana Sunday, today!). 

We think that Lime, the tree frog, has some special needs, so we have been helping him with his reading.  He doesn't say very much, but he smiles (and jumps) a lot.  We think he likes living here in the Fluffy-Hair house.  We found out that he was not treated well by his tree frog family because he was seen as the black sheep of the family*, on account of his size (much bigger than the average frog).  Poor Lime.

Anyway.  I'm off to eat the banana sundae that Nora has prepared for us (yum yum).  See you soon!

Love from Lewis MAD (Master of Animal Detective) xx

 

* I apologise to any sheep, black or white, for this comment.  I recall our CALF (Campaign Against Ludicrous Falsehoods) campaign against such animal sayings (along with others like "codswallop" and "sick as a parrot" etc.).  So I am sorry.  I am doubly sorry for also associating frogs with sheep.  Of course, they are a completely different species.



lime

yippee!

a tree frog has come to live in the fluffy-hair house!  his name is lime.  he is very handsome as you can see.  i'm off to make him some banana toast...

love nora the panda xxx

Monkey Times

Yet again, Monkey has been on his travels and wanted me to post this.  Apparently he had a tip off about some "gold being in them there hills."  He says this is what the photo shows.  Me, I think it is fools gold (it being April Fool's day and all that).  Obviously, I am not saying that Monkey is a fool (he's too cool), but if it was gold, then maybe somebody would pay for me to go on holiday (I have been working very hard again - Bond. Badger Bond has had me on another mission - which I am not allowed to talk about - Top Secret).

Anyway, Monkey says he is actually working as a journalist for the Monkey Times (although we have never seen the publication here in the Fluffy-Hair house).  It all seems a bit odd, especially as he appears to have spent much of his time lazing by this hot spring.

Oh well.  Monkey is on his way back now.  Apparently he has met a Tree Frog who will be staying with us here in the Fluffy-Hair house.  Nora is very excited.  She's making a special cake for him as I write.  I believe it's an Apple Fool.

Lewis MAD xxx