Wednesday, June 10, 2009

who's zoo

here i am on a trip to the zoo.

this way....

when i got there i went a bit ape...


and then did a bit of tiger-wrangling...


8 comments:

SharonM said...

So you were the reason I noticed animals stampeding in terror when I passed London Zoo the week before last!

Has Brian been putting you in the washing machine again (naturally, with mask and oxygen tank) - you and your bow tie are looking very spruce?

Brian Sibley said...

i did scare the big cats a bit...

washing machine? of course not, it's just my natural sartorial elegance!

SharonM said...

Now was that Brian talking about his sartorial elegance and ability to scare large animals, or you Button?

Brian Sibley said...

buttons says...

sorry for the confusion, i forgot to put 'buttons says...'

Buttons Hippo said...

Hi Coz, I hope you dropped in on my Great Uncle while you were there. He prefers to be known as Hexaprotodon liberiensis, but in the family (and I'm sure you count as family)he's known as Horace Hippo. As he's a pygmy hippo, he's about your size.

Brian Sibley said...

buttons replies...

i looked for hippos in case you'd given up on life in ascot and opted to come back to live in the smoke, but there weren't any... where they used to live (in the old elephant/rhino pavilion) there was nothing but a lot of bristly, 'bearded pigs'. ugh!

so where they've all gone i don't know... they've not moved in with your people have they...?

Buttons Hippo said...

They're definitely not here: there's no more room.

I expect they've been put out to grass at Whipsnade. Being sensitive creatures, hippos prefer the countryside to the hectic city life.

But it was nice of you to think of coming to see me. SharonM is right - in the pictures you look as though you've smartened up specially as well.

Brian Sibley said...

buttons replies...

i wanted to look my best if i was meeting any of your in-laws. trouble was the in-laws were out-laws!! Tee-hee!