Puddings & Toyboys
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Who’s chasing me??
15 June 2013
Posted by on Recent goings-on have reminded me of an episode of Frasier. Bear with me whilst I explain…
For those who are interested, it is The Ski Lodge, Season 5, Episode 14.
Summary: Roz wins a weekend at a ski lodge, and trades it to Frasier. So Frasier decides to take the whole family to the ski lodge including Daphne and her friend Annie, a swimsuit model. Once there, they meet Guy, a gay ski instructor, who has an eye for Niles. After dinner, and much butter rum, a bedroom farce ensues, where Frasier chases after Annie, who chases after Niles, who pursues Daphne, who has fallen for Guy, who obviously thinks Niles is gay.
The ultimate reveal is that no-one was after the right person, and no-one at all was after Frasier.
Frasier: Oh, wait, wait, wait! Wait, everybody! [everyone stops and looks at him] Let me see if I've got this straight. All the lust coursing through this lodge tonight, all the hormones virtually ricocheting off the walls, and no one... was chasing me?
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Translate this to what has been going on here & we have something very, very similar:
Cagney chases Thomas who has an eye for Bezukhov. Bezukhov fancies Thomas. Thomas is keeping his options open & flirts with both Cagney & Bezukhov. Phineas has the hots for Cagney. Cagney & Bezukhov are mates & flirt with each other.
Phinny: Oh, wait, wait, wait! Wait, everybody! [everyone stops and
looks at him] Let me see if I've got this straight. All the
lust coursing through the Ferplast today, all the hormones
virtually ricocheting off the cage bars, toys and perches, and
no one... is chasing me?
You looking for trouble?
23 December 2012
Posted by on Well I wasn’t looking for trouble but somehow trouble, in the form of Phineas Fog, has found me!
Phinny has another name – Trouble. With a capital T.
There has been little to no progress on Phineas joining the toyboys in the Manor. He still has no off switch. He is still obsessed with Cagney. If the toyboys are out & Phineas is locked in, the boys choose to sit right by Phineas’s cage. They must like him to want to be near him?
When Phineas is out, the Manor roof is his domain. From there, he can easily monitor the toyboys (Cagney mostly, of course) who tend to retire to the loft area when Phinny is out & about. That said, there is often a lot of flying about by all three of them. Phineas usually chases Cagney & lands wherever Cagney lands, though he still has some difficulty landing on the window perches. Phineas keeps wanting to “chat” to Cagney & literally runs around him so Cagney is almost hemmed in & unable to escape. Phineas also chases Bezukhov. Initially I thought he was chasing him away from the Manor, where Cagney was but then he seems to also chase Bezukhov back to the Manor.
In short, I am still unable to work out how Phinny’s mind works!
- Mayhem
- I am so handsome!
- So I was saying…
- Let me have a little doze…
Phineas still likes to jiggy-jiggy. When he is in his cage he likes me to put my hand in so he can regurgitate to my thumb & often, after a bit of a tail-wagging dance, leaves a “deposit”. He gives me a certain look when I approach the cage that suggests he would give my hand a welcome. Outside the cage he largely ignores me, but then he has Cagney to fixate on.
He still does not entertain the idea of going back to his own cage by himself so I still have to catch him. As an aside, clever Bezukhov has found that when Phinny is out, it is handy eating the seed in his cage. Eating seed in the Manor can be difficult (if it is open) as Phineas wants to run about & cause mayhem. Many times I have held seed up to Cagney in the loft area so he can get some food inside him.
So, in short (again), Phineas is Trouble!
Phineas however, is also incredibly handsome, despite looking a bit of a mess as he throws himself about & his feathers (particularly tail) are ruffled. He has a very cute sulky look when he does not get his own way. He puffs his cheeks out & if he had a bottom lip I am sure he would stick it out!
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