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new blog
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https://chikapash.wordpress.com/2013/03/30/new-blog/#commentsSat, 30 Mar 2013 15:14:50 +0000https://chikapash.wordpress.com/?p=252Continue reading →]]>Aeons ago, when some of us first met, like Amelie and me, I wrote a beauty and style blog. I am not the savviest fashionista nor the biggest user of makeup on the planet to be sure, but I like writing about these topics because they have a big impact on the planet and its creatures.
]]>https://chikapash.wordpress.com/2013/03/30/new-blog/feed/2252chikapashWhy is there an Easter bunny?
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I have since immigrating here become aware of the ancient Eostre. The story is that she rescued an injured hare and it became her consort. I love the idea of her. You can extract all sorts of words from her name, including estrogen. And how about Easter?
I am not a church going person. (I am also not an atheist nor writing about Eostre to argue religion and please do not try it on with me, I will ignore it) So the “real meaning of Easter” is lost on me if it involves people coming back from the dead.
As her legend became glorified, she became associated with the sun rising in the east, the month of April, fertility, grain, rebirth, and the Equinox. They even said she could take the form of a hare when necessary.
What I do love is that she obviously helped animals.
]]>https://chikapash.wordpress.com/2013/03/30/why-is-there-an-easter-bunny/feed/4218chikapashhappynesscoloursmholidays
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https://chikapash.wordpress.com/2013/03/29/holidays/#commentsFri, 29 Mar 2013 17:44:53 +0000https://chikapash.wordpress.com/2013/03/29/holidays/I shall make it my mission to check in on everyone this weekend. I miss you guys!
]]>https://chikapash.wordpress.com/2013/03/29/holidays/feed/7217chikapashbaby it’s cold outside
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Masha 7 AM freezing his bollocks off smoking a ciggy – Spring has not made it to the UK yet! See the snow coming down around him!
]]>https://chikapash.wordpress.com/2013/03/29/snuggling2-jpg/feed/7209chikapashhat in my new hat shop
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]]>https://chikapash.wordpress.com/2013/03/29/hat-in-my-new-hat-shop/feed/1206chikapashhat in my new hat shopcountdown to the holidays
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https://chikapash.wordpress.com/2012/12/15/countdown-to-the-holidays/#commentsSat, 15 Dec 2012 07:25:52 +0000https://chikapash.wordpress.com/2012/12/15/countdown-to-the-holidays/Sorry everyone, I am so busy! We have more rescued bunnies too! Giants!
]]>https://chikapash.wordpress.com/2012/12/15/countdown-to-the-holidays/feed/5204chikapashDecember
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https://chikapash.wordpress.com/2012/12/05/december/#commentsWed, 05 Dec 2012 06:27:05 +0000https://chikapash.wordpress.com/?p=198Continue reading →]]>December has come to the UK and with it, truly winter. This week so far the warmest day has been 3c. I am not complaining; it is December on an island in the North Atlantic, and we are lucky it is not even colder, thanks to the Gulf Stream.
The weekend and early week saw lots of sales in my shop, so I have been busy packing and shipping. And to add to the mix, two new bunnies arrived yesterday morning; I only knew their ages and had been emailed an old (I know now) photo of them (as young ones). Om…they’re giants. But beautiful girls, both, and very shy and a big frightened. Rightly so. I suspect they were stuck in their hutch for ages, their nails are very long.
So with that, I must go feed all the bunnies, get the day started, and I will be back, hoping later in the day, to visit and chat with you all.
]]>https://chikapash.wordpress.com/2012/12/05/december/feed/1198chikapashin case the American news has not let people know
https://chikapash.wordpress.com/2012/11/27/in-case-the-american-news-has-not-let-people-know/
https://chikapash.wordpress.com/2012/11/27/in-case-the-american-news-has-not-let-people-know/#commentsTue, 27 Nov 2012 07:20:41 +0000https://chikapash.wordpress.com/?p=194Continue reading →]]>There has been widespread flooding here in the UK since the weekend. Heavy rain has been falling on already saturated ground. They closed a road in a neighbouring village, but where we live it has been safe so far but for loads of mud and being dismal outside. This time of year the sun comes up after 8 AM and sets around 3:30, so even if it does get sunny, there is not much evaporation. Plus it’s not warm enough really for much evaporation. I learned the first year I was here that hanging clothes outside after Nov 1 is futile.
Scotland, Cornwall and Essex seemed to have gotten the worst of it. However two rivers in Northhampton area are forecast to have a great flood risk from heavy runoff building them up. This can take a couple of days to happen as the water drains off the landscape.
]]>https://chikapash.wordpress.com/2012/11/27/in-case-the-american-news-has-not-let-people-know/feed/3194chikapash111floodbunnified
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https://chikapash.wordpress.com/2012/11/26/catching-up/#commentsMon, 26 Nov 2012 09:00:33 +0000https://chikapash.wordpress.com/?p=143Continue reading →]]>The bunnies take up most of my life. There are 20 here, and we have rescued more than that. Each has their story which will tell why the law here needs to change, as well as the irresponsibility, cruelty, and stupidity of many humans.
You’ve met Henry; he has not bonded with anybunny cause he is a sensitive soul. He loves his stuffies and he loves me. Here he is last night grooming his fav stuffy bear.
big Hermie, rescued in Aug 2011, a real love bug, and Hermie lived unloved and with no shelter or even food for the first 4.5 years of his life; but he loves Masha and is found of an evening in his lap on the sofa; Hermie is a giant and weighs around 4.5 kg
Here is Milo again. He is very special, he has to have his teeth removed in front as soon as they grow back. Surgically. Despite that and his arriving here emaciated, scarred up and filthy, he is full of love and every single night before I go to bed, I kiss his head. He snores and it sounds like a kazoo. He’s tiny and weighs only 1.2 kg.
Here are Maus and Coffee, both part of Milo’s family. The people had decided to breed bunnies but then did not know what to do with them, so they lived crammed in a small hutch inbreeding and fighting. These two live outside in a big run with a 3 storey house attached. I think they look so cute together.
Max and Vuvuzella, some of you might remember them, they are bunnies 4 and 5 that we rescued (2010). They have a shed-house with a run attached.
Gorsky and Dani in the play area. Where she goes, he follows. Here they are being able to run and jump, something they never could do in the shithole they used to live in. Ironically the woman had a huge walled garden that they could gaze upon from their crappy tiny hutch.
Here is Rupert, who we adopted in 2010 from a shelter. He lives outside in an 8 foot long house with two extensions. Here he is chillin in his Binky Box. He loves to sit in it and glare at everyone. He only likes me and that is that. He bites Masha so he can not live in the house. But I let him out with me into the garden and he gets full run of it when I am outside, usually daily. He has gotten very grumpy in his old age, but I still love him.
Rupert stretching his legs
Levi and Burgess, rescued 2011; Levi was in a pet shop and had runny poos and flies were all around, and he was a wee baby all alone in that little cage. It was during a heatwave. I had to buy him though it is against my convictions. The next day I marched into that shop and read them the riot act. They were rude. I am working to get the law changed in the UK so that it will be illegal to sell rabbits in shops and on gumtree. Burgess and her sister Shale, I rescued from an idiot in January 2011. Yes, they have matching wonky ears. I call them Thing 1 and Thing 2 because they are always into and up to something naughty.