tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-347373882024-03-05T22:12:58.416+00:00buttons' blog ramblings of a rabbitBrian Sibleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02395103557170474777noreply@blogger.comBlogger319125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34737388.post-33103673395235419342023-12-13T03:57:00.000+00:002023-12-13T03:57:03.494+00:00in some place with Zs in its name...<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQSMb3JZ4Sy4PD_z295TH_Ex6qd0cg4LWrHUGyHAn-NJgvhSRrQJ3u9XYFlg2Jn7wPtFG0tH4O-_uJr1dnr5YV4nDZQwIZmXSxbTOu1fomrqAxllGx_Wl05g0Qlnqks4wpm03waBRrRHyDvGEWCklJfI7rgHQQMozdn5GPGmoY67o743qLI0x9wA/s2884/IMG_5660.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2884" data-original-width="2405" height="507" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQSMb3JZ4Sy4PD_z295TH_Ex6qd0cg4LWrHUGyHAn-NJgvhSRrQJ3u9XYFlg2Jn7wPtFG0tH4O-_uJr1dnr5YV4nDZQwIZmXSxbTOu1fomrqAxllGx_Wl05g0Qlnqks4wpm03waBRrRHyDvGEWCklJfI7rgHQQMozdn5GPGmoY67o743qLI0x9wA/w423-h507/IMG_5660.jpeg" width="423" /></a></div><p></p>Brian Sibleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02395103557170474777noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34737388.post-26877741654680951992021-02-14T11:42:00.002+00:002021-02-14T11:42:21.639+00:00who can this be from?<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWxLmfbKgVmE2URR5hbE5EF2Z2B4vbUOSxBLn5Jkk0IO2eCAf-YMe4LLzSRMg5j2uY6oQB0ZNUVwXwZp1WJboahfV48TojF5YWeo4h7OdTgpblSrx3vOWXxi6RzsYy_ZVEWQb5yQ/s2048/IMG_5575.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1901" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWxLmfbKgVmE2URR5hbE5EF2Z2B4vbUOSxBLn5Jkk0IO2eCAf-YMe4LLzSRMg5j2uY6oQB0ZNUVwXwZp1WJboahfV48TojF5YWeo4h7OdTgpblSrx3vOWXxi6RzsYy_ZVEWQb5yQ/w371-h400/IMG_5575.jpeg" width="371" /></a></div><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0Fg5k7zqE4PrT444xmN1LE-BdumEfQD1FpNciRq1jwCK4UgY8E6CuGtpzPdcPrly6gcnKftSnZqk50ai2vcQF6hyphenhyphenozu0kWfyTZcZC6RDkpMelnroFjxn_lxJ7cS9Bgub3ZzYGow/s2048/IMG_5578.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0Fg5k7zqE4PrT444xmN1LE-BdumEfQD1FpNciRq1jwCK4UgY8E6CuGtpzPdcPrly6gcnKftSnZqk50ai2vcQF6hyphenhyphenozu0kWfyTZcZC6RDkpMelnroFjxn_lxJ7cS9Bgub3ZzYGow/w400-h300/IMG_5578.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p>Brian Sibleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02395103557170474777noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34737388.post-16657348963908326942019-03-29T15:51:00.001+00:002019-03-29T15:51:48.810+00:00bunny brexittoday's the day the big people were supposed to settle something called 'brexit'...<br />
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last night brian and david took me to see what was – for a bunny – a very disturbing exhibition about something called <b>rabbrexit</b>.<br />
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i think it was probably just 'art' and not anything 'real' (if you see what I mean) but i have to say it was jolly exciting to see all those art lovers, supping their champers and admiring lots of very splendid rabbits...<br />
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you can visit <a href="https://www.houseofillustration.org.uk/whats-on/current-future-events/yimiao-shih-rabbrexit-means-rabbrexit/"><i>rabbrexit means rabbrexit</i></a> at <a href="https://www.houseofillustration.org.uk/"><b>house of illustration</b></a>Brian Sibleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02395103557170474777noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34737388.post-83515802563128420272018-12-24T23:27:00.000+00:002018-12-24T23:27:01.800+00:00happy christmaslast evening <span><span data-offset-key="988ri-0-0"><span data-text="true">brian and david's friend, pucci, invited hippolyta and me to dinner at her lovely home in venice. it was up 70 stairs, but fortunately, david did the carrying....</span></span></span><br />
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Brian Sibleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02395103557170474777noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34737388.post-12174773356270996412018-12-24T16:07:00.000+00:002018-12-24T16:07:40.569+00:00a much-needed little-something...hippolyta, exhausted from last night's musical outing is resting, so i popped out for a quick aperol pick-me-up...<br />
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<br />Brian Sibleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02395103557170474777noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34737388.post-70500629312319644612018-12-23T20:00:00.000+00:002018-12-24T16:04:25.286+00:00a little night musici took hippolyta to a concert at teatro la fenice – all went well till
they played 'the dance of the hours' and hippolyta (remembering having
seen a hippo dancing to this tune in the film 'fantasia') decided to
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Brian Sibleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02395103557170474777noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34737388.post-76836657054864668992018-12-19T09:49:00.001+00:002018-12-19T09:53:54.046+00:00'tis the season...here we are – hippolyta and i – in venice and dreaming of a white christmas...<br />
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Brian Sibleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02395103557170474777noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34737388.post-17910252369716386172018-06-13T18:40:00.002+01:002018-06-13T18:40:11.161+01:00jurassic buttonsi'm ready for my close-up, mr <span class="st">spielberg...</span><br />
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Brian Sibleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02395103557170474777noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34737388.post-84119076156115426522018-06-13T18:35:00.000+01:002018-06-13T18:35:00.179+01:00fossilingbig isn't it?<br />
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<br />Brian Sibleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02395103557170474777noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34737388.post-54889246000862987682018-06-13T18:30:00.001+01:002018-06-13T18:30:39.511+01:00beside the seasideh and me taking the sea-air<br />
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<br />Brian Sibleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02395103557170474777noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34737388.post-61616420464221461652018-06-09T03:44:00.005+01:002018-06-09T03:44:45.596+01:00holiday timethis time last year i was sunning myself on the beach in greece.<br />
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...i'll be heading off down there later today!Brian Sibleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02395103557170474777noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34737388.post-55819964039415530782018-03-30T00:26:00.001+01:002018-03-30T00:26:49.828+01:00easter bunnies<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Brian Sibleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02395103557170474777noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34737388.post-28626993906705075492017-12-21T20:17:00.000+00:002017-12-21T20:17:11.772+00:00blue without you...i was hoping hippolyta would be able to join me in venice for christmas but 'others' had 'other ideas', so here I am alone (apart from the 'oldies' and this jovial little xmas elf, forced to try and put a brave face on things...<br />
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<br />Brian Sibleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02395103557170474777noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34737388.post-75785984228441878142017-10-08T14:25:00.001+01:002017-10-08T14:25:16.032+01:00izzy-wizzylook who i met the other day....<br />
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[Photo: Mark Hesketh-Jennings]Brian Sibleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02395103557170474777noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34737388.post-25171726579530458962017-08-28T15:12:00.001+01:002017-08-28T15:14:52.611+01:00at castle hippolyta i was quite taken aback to get an invite to join hippolyta at her ancestral home for a house-party –– or, to be more accurate, a castle party!<br />
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we had a jolly good time despite the tedious presence of buttons hippo and brother bruno: the first with endless historical anecdotes of doubtful veracity, the later shamelessly freeloading as hippolyta's spiritual adviser, aka official gooseberry!<br />
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still we managed to give them the slip and explored the ruins...<br />
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we spent ages gazing up at the space where a roof once was...<br />
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played hide-and-seek in the knot-garden (which <b>is<i></i></b> a garden even though it sounds as if it's <b>not<i></i></b>)...<br />
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and, in the evenings, we had some highly competitive tiddly-winks tournaments with the aforementioned bh and bb – both of whom cheated shamelessly!<br />
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<br />Brian Sibleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02395103557170474777noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34737388.post-68939823928673062462017-06-26T18:15:00.002+01:002017-06-26T18:15:44.867+01:00rise and shineafter a late night carousing at the local taverna, hipployta and i retired to chez bunny and arose this morning refreshed and rejuvenated to enjoy a delicious breakfast...<br />
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before helping hippolyta with the application of sun bloc (she is conscious of the need to preserve her youthful looks) and – as the holiday draws to a close – settling down to some serious sun-worshiping...<br />
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<br />Brian Sibleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02395103557170474777noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34737388.post-52129782458688782372017-06-23T10:38:00.002+01:002017-06-24T01:13:09.950+01:00the end of the affairso...<br />
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later that night, i had a bunny-to-croc conversation with cedric in which i asked what his true intentions were with regard to hippolyta and pointed out that whilst he might have bigger teeth than me (and he does! lots of them) not to mention strutting around in a silly top hat and waistcoat as if he were in the royal enclosure at ascot, it didn't cut any ice with me and that he needed to understand that i wasn't prepared to stand by and see him break hippolyta's heart.<br />
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i think i must have got my point across as, that night, cedric upped-anchor and slunk off into the aegean.<br />
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according to buttons hippo (who took the photo below) hippolyta spent the next day siting on her balcony gazing, he says, at the spot where cedric's yacht had been moored – or, maybe, just hoping that the shiny, newly arrived, motor launch might indicate the imminent appearance of an international talent scout on the look out for someone to star in a forthcoming vegas spectacular...<br />
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i spent the day with brother bruno exploring the early christian baths and listening to extracts from his <span data-dobid="hdw">exegesis on first century religious ablution practices with special reference to the spiritual significance manifested by archeological finds in the islands of </span><span data-dobid="hdw"><span class="st">dodecanese. </span></span><br />
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<span data-dobid="hdw"><span class="st">for something that was basically about washing, it was pretty dry stuff...</span></span><br />
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<span data-dobid="hdw"><span class="st">happily, today, everything seems to be back on an even keel (to use a nautical turn of phrase) and hippolyta and i had an energetic game of hide-and-seek up in the mountains...</span></span><br />
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before settling down to a little sun bathing.<br />
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<span data-dobid="hdw"><span class="st">as for cedric: crocodile schomocodile, i say!</span> </span>Brian Sibleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02395103557170474777noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34737388.post-10904533545975295822017-06-21T08:42:00.005+01:002017-06-21T08:48:20.628+01:00trouble in paradisea disturbing incident occurred to unsettle the equanimity of the greecian idyll i have been enjoying with hippolyta.<br />
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a british yacht came in with a super-smooth character on board –
cedric by name – who was dressed up to the nines (totally at odds with
the prevailing dress code in the little taverna where we enjoy our
evening trysts) who was soon behaving in a very smarmy,
leslie-phillips-kind-of-way towards hippolyta who quickly succumbed to
his crocodillian blandishments... <br />
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i tried to sneak up and eavesdrop on their chitchat, but it was all murmured nothings. i can't believe hippolyta has fallen for this scaly character just because he has a top hat and waistcoat and flashes so many teeth with every caddish smile.<br />
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buttons hippo told me that, in his opinion, hippolyta is totally smitten...<br />
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then he kindly allowed me to cry out my grief on his shoulder...<br />
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for me, it brought back sordid memories of an incident recounted on this blog back in 2013...<br />
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is history repeating itself........................<br />
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<span style="color: purple;"><b>september 8, 2013</b> </span></h3>
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we are staying at a truly international venue where big yachts from all over the world come into the harbour on a daily basis.<br />
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today a boat sporting the american flag arrived owned by a vip who can truly be described as a big cheese.<br />
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since arriving he has done nothing but talk about his studio in hollywood, the films he has made and the oscars he has won...<br />
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buttons hippo did his best to sell a treatment for his memoir, <i>carry on up the limpopo</i>,
and i actually thought he was going to strike a deal, but as soon as
the visitor saw hippolyta (she was relaxing under a parasol by the pool
with her first tequila sunrise of the afternoon) he lost interest in b
h's proposal and started talking about how he was going to make
hippolyta into the new marilyn monroe.<br />
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"more like the new margaret rutherford," said buttons hippo cruelly (i
thought), retreating to his room with a bottle of bourbon. but now h is
totally smitten with the yank (with his ludicrous red shorts and yellow
boots) and is on the point of signing a three picture deal which will
whisk her off to the other side of the world to fame and fortune and out
of my life for ever...<br />
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my worst fears have been realised! the yank has turned out to be an even
worse cad than i anticipated: overnight, he up-anchored and vanished!<br />
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not only has he abandoned hippolyta who is devastated and is sitting in
her room with mascara streaming down her cheeks sobbing, "i'm ready for
my close-up mr de mouse...", but he has also filched the script of a
disaster movie that roger was hoping to sell to brian's friend peter
jackson; set in greece, it was entitled <i>goats on a boat</i> and will undoubtedly be at a cinema near you sometime in 2014.<br />
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buttons hippo and i toyed with buying a boat to go in pursuit of the
mouse, but it turned out we didn't have enough euros even if brian went
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determined to pay out the rat who had so badly wronged poor hippolyta,
buttons hippo and i pursued his yacht with the assistance of our trusty
inflatable bambi, which, in the circumstances i considered poetic (or,
more accurately) filmic justice...<br />
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...located a large boulder, precariously balanced... <br />
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as anyone who knows her will tell you, hippolyta is not really a
'morning person': the hours between sunrise and noon are –
understandably for a diva – reserved for the necessary cultivation and
preservation of her legendary beauty.<br />
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however, the upset over the mouse who turned out to be a rat, left her
feeling abused and abandoned and sleep was a total impossibility.<br />
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after a seemingly endless night of anguish, I eventually managed to console her and help her see that, as vivien leigh says in <i>gone with the wind</i>, "tomorrow is another day..."<br />
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and so, together, we greeted the dawn on the last day of our holiday...</div>
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<br />Brian Sibleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02395103557170474777noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34737388.post-59944440735114914712017-06-12T17:42:00.000+01:002017-06-12T17:42:17.879+01:00chillin'just sittin' and thinkin'...<br />
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<br />Brian Sibleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02395103557170474777noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34737388.post-23591669664561719232017-04-17T11:17:00.003+01:002017-04-17T11:17:42.138+01:00birthday bunnyyesterday, apart from being easter sunday, was my umpty-first birthday and, even though brian and david completely forgot, i was very lucky that a certain hippo remembered her bunny's special day...<br />
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<br />Brian Sibleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02395103557170474777noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34737388.post-42562868912829166132017-04-15T12:48:00.001+01:002017-04-15T12:48:19.093+01:00ready for easter<div style="text-align: center;">
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Brian Sibleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02395103557170474777noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34737388.post-11995665645563436842016-12-24T03:23:00.004+00:002016-12-24T03:23:32.426+00:00christmas sparklersi spotted this in a shop window and immediately thought of my friend, hippolyta, the diva of hippos...<br />
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unfortunately, brian said we didn't have enough euros: he's such a spoilsport!<br />
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Brian Sibleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02395103557170474777noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34737388.post-12090491877470904532016-12-19T23:57:00.003+00:002016-12-20T08:11:16.903+00:00early pressieshippolyta and i had a very romantic get together over the weekend...<br />
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obviously two minds with but a single sweet thought: i gave hippolyta a bumper bar of hippo-embellished chocolate and she gave me a basket of marzipan animals – a bit of a bizarre collections as it turns out: a bear, a pig(let), a rabbit, an owl, a kangaroo ––– and a penguin...<br />
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except i'm beginning to feel there's a theme going on here and i wonder if she forgot and gave me a present that was actually intended for that well-known pooh-person with whom i happen to live...?<br />
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oh, yes and now we've also got an non-edible a penguin with ear muffs...Brian Sibleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02395103557170474777noreply@blogger.com0