Fricka's back! Fricka's back! Fricka's back!
Sorry. I'm supposed to be a mature, adult and responsible penguin. Such childish outbursts ill become me. But it is good that she is here......at last. Little Fricka has been fed (again) and is starting to look healthy.
Poor Fricka has lost the best part of her left outer toe on her left foot but while the wound looks ragged, it has started to heal. It is of little consequence, beauty after all has always lain in the imperfections. She is, I think, a little put out that I had so little faith that I named the chick before her arrival but she understands and although with hindsight her choice, Freya, would have been better, 'little' Fricka she remains.
To celebrate, Fricka and I went to the movies, well ok we watched a DVD on the big TV in the station while everyone was out billing and cooing over the new arrivals. Now I love movies but unfortunately we have to wait for the station to get a foreign language film, subtitled in English, otherwise we can't understand it. We can only read and type, the spoken word means little or nothing to us, just noise. The film was 'El laberinto del fauno' (Pan's Labyrinth), a very cute fairy story wrapped up in a very dark tale of fascist Spain in the '40s. For some reason, it got me thinking about lying, deceit and stuff - well I suppose it would really, it's what fascists are really, really good at.
Now penguins don't deceive, deliberately lie, try and hide parts of the truth. It's why Cozy's behaviour the other day was so surprising. It's just not something we engage in. I guess we are on such a knife edge down here that any deception would be pointless, eventually you'd get found out and no-one would trust you again and you'd be on your own, at the mercy of the elements. It's probably why no-one tries to get out of their stint on the outside, ultimately, there's no point, you'd die alone, very quickly.
But you lot? It's a way of life! We see it a lot in your politics (with a small 'p' and a big one), in news, in business, in fact everywhere! It seems that you can't engage in any interaction with each other without trying to occlude your objectives, your aims, your means, whatever. Now I can see that if you've got cancer, you might want to hide that from people you love and, more importantly, from people who love you. But you are going to have to tell them anyway, at some point it's going to be obvious that you are not well, isn't it?. So why wait? It doesn't diminish the pain they will feel, just dimishes you. That at least though I can understand. But the cynical 'we don't mind and they don't matter' attitude that some humans have, especially fascists and stalinists (same thing really), towards hiding their true objectives and the means by which they are going to attain them; wrapping them up in all manner of spin, lies, half truths, dodgy statistics, why do you put up with it? You even admit to seeing through all the deception while it's going on. Me, I just don't get it. Although perhaps you are all so innured against this stuff that you can't rouse yourselves from the apathy. After all, the new boss is invariably the same as the old boss. Does that count as plagiarism? If so, (c) P Townsend, esq MSOR (Member of the Sex Offenders' Register)
Oh well, it's your life! Or lack of it!
One more little job to do and I'm off to the sea tomorrow for fish, fish and more fish and then I'll be onto 'seconds'. Probably start with prawn cocktails and finish off with some nice sea cucumbers with fish in between. You need a good start to reverse the metabolism from burning fat to laying it down. Rest assured I know exactly how to do that! Fricka has said that she will cover for me when she can, although they may be a little sporadic, depends on how soon the chicks move to the creche.
Now I wonder where they put the string?
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