June 14th

Under Tramp Day

Today Dodo had a bit of thought, the others were really impressed, less so with the straining sound and bad smells which had left Flappys furr all white and greasy as he was the closest! (Flappy wasn’t that bothered by the greasy bit, the white just worried him!)

“Dodo!” said Dodo and the others agreed a game of sardines was a mighty fine idea and even suggested he hide first.

Dodo agreed and went to hide and the others counted to a hundred (well, Doily, Didi, one hundred and nothing!) before wandering off to do their own thing and Dead Vole just lay on the ground, all happy in the knowledge that they would have a good couple of days before Dodo wandered back!

Dodo hid under Dead Tramp and giggled, he was so good at sardines, they could never find him!

May 31st

Warm Trickle Day

Today Dodo was relaxing with Dead Vole and Didi.Ogd and Flappy were still asleep after being up all night with the ball, and pushing each other off it.

Dodo was happy and relaxed, so much so he wet himself and was asked to leave.Sometimes you can be just too relaxed with others, and warming others feet with your last drink is rarely taken as a compliment!

May 30th

Fall Off Day

‘Costumes’ all ready, Dodo and the rest of the gang couldn’t wait any longer and started the ball early.

Dodo fell off the ball first when they it hit Flappy, who no one realised was a hill, followed by Didi who had confused everyone…a rat posing as a rat based on bits of a hedgehog on a house!

Dead Vole was very glad he was dead, as were most of Dodo’s corns/beetles!

In the end the ball was very nice and still quite tender in part, they even saved an eyeball for Dead Vole and promised to dig Flappy up soon!

May 29th

Still Dead Day

Dead Vole wasn’t that bothered about the ball (though he might have one of the eyes when no one is looking!)  and was even less bothered about dressing up for it (Dodo had offered him his dress as he wasn’t allowed to wear it!)  or  coming as something else. Ogd had suggested coming as doorstop, Flappy had thought up dead wood and Didi joined in to suggest a half built outhouse and even offered to fill some of his cracks with mortar!

In the end Dead Vole couldn’t make his mind up (having lost it some time ago) and decided not to go because he was dead.

May 16th

Playing Dead Day

Exhausted after almost two days worth of trying Dodo has decided to take it easy and try and be like Dead vole,  just doing nothing and lying where he fell.

Dead Vole was not impressed and did a very good impression of Dodo in revenge.He just lay there and did nothing!

Doing nothing requires more effort than you would think, just do nothing all day and you will be surprised how tired you are!

New Year Book..

My new copy of the Writers and Artists Yearbook arrived this morning…and spent most of the day sat all shiny and crisp and smug on my desk!

I managed to have a little flick through and read one of the articles on why to get a literary Agent, but work kept popping up and being demanding so back it went in to the corner of the table and the best I could manage for the rest of the day is adding to my To Do(do) List, all the random ideas I get and all the things (bar being a book) I want to do with Dodo, like his own range of Jam or Dead Vole branded Bodybags/Sleeping Bags!

Started a doodle that might be Ogd (Big Head, Big Eyes and scrawny neck so far)

New letter declaring Dodo’s need for an audience is still warm from the printer, and I will make sure its been sent off to the next agent by the weekend so I can start worrying again and watching the postman like an obsessive ex-girlfriend!

May 8th

Flappys Birth Day

Today is Flappy’s birthday, before Dodo met Flappy it was called Itchy Wrinkled Bit Day and usually involved Dodo, a stick and resulted in one rat with a look of pain and pleasure on his face!

Instead today is now spent dancing round flappy singing while he tries to look happy and stop his ears bleeding.Instead of party poppers, snails are heated up and thrown about (usually at Flappy as it is his day!) and with the bit of the graveyard being decorated with inflated toads hung by their tongues, sort of like balloons but upside down and a bit more struggley and moist!

As an extra treat Dodo and Ogd herded in all the slugs they could find (Flappy had been raised by slugs), Flappy was very emotional and couldn’t eat them all.

Dead Vole wasn’t invited to the party because he hadn’t help blow up the toads, but he didn’t say he was bothered.

May 6th

Stupid Friend Day

Surround yourself with people less intelligent than you, it will make you look better.

Dodo though he was the brightest person he knew, unfortunately this was only true when he was at his stupidest and could only just remember who he was. Dodo was actually the stupid one everyone else let hang around to make them look better, even Dead Vole looked better (if you didn’t look to closely and it was quite dark…and you had had a bit too drink!) than Dodo!

Didi was madder, but that took imagination to think you were a house!

Flappy was a bit simple, but he could fly (well thats what he said!)

and Ogd said quite clearly that he was brighter than Dodo,  and not just because he was a pigeon!

I hadn’t the heart to disagree so i made my excuses and left!

May 5th

Waste of a Day

No Pain no Gain.

Thats what ‘They’ say, But Dodo and pretty much everyone he knows thinks ‘They’ tend to lie a bit.Dodo’s mother went though an awful lot of pain (from conception to birth!) to give us Dodo..lots of pain and clearly very little gain!

Dodo has tried chasing food several times, he finds it very painful, and its even painful to watch, and all for very little gain, just one fat and steaming out of breath rat!

Dead Vole would also like to point out he now has no pain after being sat on and crushed to death by Dodo, he has received no gain (though Dodo’s ‘friendship’ could be described as a pain!) but he cannot as he is still dead, which is a pain!

Today is dedicated to St Nettle. She is also the patron of Pins and needles, paper cuts and the pain you get after eating too much potato!

The Hundred line!

Just past the hundred posts line!

Dodo was so excited he wet himself, though he might have just been excited because he was about to wet himself!

Didi was quite impressed but wanted to know if if i was interested in buying or just rental.She mentioned unfurnished and i made my excuses and left.

Ogd was busy being superior and checking his hairline (featherline?!) in a ditch.

Flappy said wow and pushed Ogd into a ditch in excitement.

Dead Vole said nothing as he was dead, had he not been dead he might have been impressed or asked if i had anything better to do with my time?, like write more about him, or at least leave an organ. I didn’t answer him.