Not so WISE
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Date: 27 November 2008 08:36:59
Well, the parcel I had to go scurrying to the post office to collect was not, repeat not, my WISE parcel. Silly me. It was something equally fun, though.
At last, the chance to grow my own penguin.
The Smudgelet noticed that both my brother and I have rather a large number of penguins in our homes. We are beginning to wonder whether it's a genetic, inherited trait, although neither of our parents showed any obsessive behaviour in the penguin line. But our respective love of penguins has developed independently of each other - in fact, I was quite surprised when I visited him the time before last to find his home rather occupied by small black and white flightless birds as I hadn't realised he was so keen on them until then.
I guess my liking of them originated in his, though, without my realising it, as he spent 3 years during my childhood working with the British Antarctic Survey and sent home loads of pictures, most of them including penguins of some kind or other, and my Dad and I spent hours with the reference books identifying all the different sorts he'd spotted. Obviously now I realise that he'd photographed so many penguins because he actually likes penguins! Well, duh!
My penguin obsession came about more accidentally, though, when I was rifling through some free avatar pictures in search of one to use on a website not a million miles away from here. I mean, it could have been a duck or a kitten (oh, how soppy can you get?) or any of countless avatars that appealed. But when I saw the penguin, such a wonderful picture of a penguin, well it was no contest. From there the gradual accumulation of a household of penguins began as people bought me penguins because "I saw this and thought of you" :D
I do rather like them, though ;)