tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82783564117899461292024-03-13T03:00:02.493+00:00Tea Is For TurtleFor something a mite special.
Turtle's blog.Turtlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17060903463938185131noreply@blogger.comBlogger117125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278356411789946129.post-27830283437009651122018-05-07T16:01:00.001+01:002018-05-07T16:01:35.677+01:00Perfumier<div style="text-align: center;">
<span id="docs-internal-guid-600be6f5-ab71-843a-7256-ebda52946a66"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Turtle’s debut perfume, Eau de Smörgåsbord of Beetroot, is a unisex fragrance for the sophisticated wearer.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Steeped for twelve minutes, with earthy undertones and the teaspoon taken out, it leaves behind a trailing waft that creates the urge to put the kettle on.</span></span><br />
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Turtlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17060903463938185131noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278356411789946129.post-80046439679640782602018-04-04T17:08:00.000+01:002018-04-04T17:11:30.450+01:00Just One More Thing<div style="text-align: center;">
<span id="docs-internal-guid-600be6f5-ab71-843a-7256-ebda52946a66"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Turtle always softened his interrogative style for Sam. After all, he well understood the overwhelming desire for an Eccles Cake that could lead a tortoise to crime.</span></span></span><br />
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Turtlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17060903463938185131noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278356411789946129.post-72470216202675833782018-03-19T18:01:00.001+00:002018-03-19T18:08:00.808+00:00Shopaholic<div style="text-align: center;">
<span id="docs-internal-guid-600be6f5-ab71-843a-7256-ebda52946a66"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">After meandering through the heat of a dusty bazaar Turtle found his organic cotton shopper replete with a glorious selection of blended teas. Choosing which to drink first would be quite the challenge, so he put the kettle on and made a pot of builders' brew to help him think.</span></span></span><br />
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Turtlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17060903463938185131noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278356411789946129.post-80541737042278355652018-03-11T14:51:00.000+00:002018-03-11T15:10:24.608+00:00Kaiju<div style="text-align: center;">
<span id="docs-internal-guid-600be6f5-ab71-843a-7256-ebda52946a66"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Striding over the tops of the houses in the cool mist of the morning, Turtle took slow and purposeful steps being careful not to knock any chimney stacks or jostle any roof tiles out of position. It was painfully early and the entire village was still quietly a-slumber, as Turtle felt he should be too.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">But, he had business to attend to.</span></span><br />
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<span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Settling on the vast field that met with the edge of the village, Turtle readied his wooden staff for battle and practiced using his laser vision. And, as the giant bear-like creature emerged from the trees across the field, Turtle let out a mighty roar...</span></span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-600be6f5-ab71-843a-7256-ebda52946a66"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Working away in the office, Monday heard a soft snuffle tumble in from the next room.</span></span></span><br />
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Turtlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17060903463938185131noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278356411789946129.post-62160188922333269612018-02-28T12:35:00.000+00:002018-03-11T15:07:16.228+00:00And the Winner is...<div style="text-align: center;">
<span id="docs-internal-guid-600be6f5-ab71-843a-7256-ebda52946a66"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Upon being awarded this year's Everlasting Teapot, Turtle's acceptance speech went thusly:</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"Turtle's brew is a brew for two."</span></span><br />
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<span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">But with much more of a 'Jazz' edge to it.</span></span></div>
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Turtlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17060903463938185131noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278356411789946129.post-61515418861491391992018-02-23T11:32:00.002+00:002018-02-24T15:40:29.796+00:00With the Greatest of Ease<div style="text-align: center;">
<span id="docs-internal-guid-600be6f5-ab71-843a-7256-ebda52946a66"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It wasn't the first time that Turtle had taken flight without making it his intention to do so. Once landed he would of course reel off all the usual remarks about how it had taken him by surprise and how it had only been five minutes earlier that he'd been sat at his kitchen table quietly dining on beetroot. But for now, he'd just enjoy the breeze cascading over his knees. Or whatever the tortoise equivalent.</span></span></div>
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Turtlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17060903463938185131noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278356411789946129.post-62980580214306651632017-04-26T19:11:00.000+01:002017-04-26T22:40:01.224+01:00I Challenge You to a Dance Off<div style="text-align: center;">
<span id="docs-internal-guid-600be6f5-ab71-843a-7256-ebda52946a66"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Upon hearing the first beat of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psFQMKcsIF8" target="_blank">‘Give It Up’</a> by KC and The Sunshine Band, Turtle moved swiftly across the function room to the area assigned for dancing. And without hesitation or trepidation, Turtle threw forth a dance like no other. Because Turtle knew, that when it comes to a dance off, you don’t wait for an invitation. Especially at a wedding.</span></span></span></div>
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Turtlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17060903463938185131noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278356411789946129.post-34334131356103581542014-07-06T13:16:00.002+01:002014-07-06T13:16:36.686+01:00Hush<div style="text-align: center;">
Quiet fell upon the garments of the partygoers</div>
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as passed by a tortoise wearing a pair of silent trousers.</div>
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Having spoken not a word to the Frenchman, Turtle graciously accepted the proffered ears of corn and added them to his bum-bag. And, without pausing for thanks, away the Frenchman strode thinking only for a fleeting moment about the mechanics of attaching a bum-bag to a tortoise.</div>
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"Make it so...!" said the undoubtedly portly feline.</div>
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And although not the most conventional way to make the request, Turtle obliged and put the kettle on.</div>
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After all, he was quite ready for a brew.</div>
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With a slight degree of trepidation governing his moves, Turtle danced into the waning sunlight; knowing full well that the end of this Rhumba would mark the stewing of his brew...</div>
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Turtlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17060903463938185131noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278356411789946129.post-51452162534341583792014-02-20T23:37:00.002+00:002014-03-04T18:56:43.637+00:00The Tortoise and the Bear<div style="text-align: center;">
'But, am I a bear though?'</div>
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thought Turtle as his goliath companion delicately topped up their teapot with more hot water.</div>
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After much discussion, the Bear had conceded that Turtle's hue was indeed most uncommon in his species, and his gait most un-bearlike.</div>
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But still, the Bear insisted in a most endearing way that Turtle was in fact not a tortoise at all.</div>
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And although it was a difficult notion for him to accept, it did go some way towards explaining all that 'rawwrrrr'-ing in Turtle's sleep.</div>
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Turtlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17060903463938185131noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278356411789946129.post-50728989304356266342013-10-02T22:46:00.004+01:002013-10-02T22:47:36.819+01:00The Day's Good Deed<div style="text-align: center;">
"Don't you think...?"<br />
spoke the digestive as it watched Turtle sup the last of his tea.</div>
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It was indeed most unusual, he thought, for a digestive to live its entire life without ever having met a hot brew.</div>
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So being of altruistic breed, Turtle let a moment pass softly over the biscuit tin and then...</div>
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well...</div>
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put the kettle on.</div>
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Turtlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17060903463938185131noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278356411789946129.post-51894915790315972862013-09-25T22:27:00.003+01:002013-09-25T22:27:37.878+01:00Cookie Cutting<div style="text-align: center;">
When Turtle's cutting cookies,</div>
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the cookies that Turtle cuts,</div>
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The 127th chicken that Turtle counted on this particular day turned out to be a bird of many words.<br />
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The only glimmer of pleasing prose that left the chicken's beak was a fleeting and altogether confusing drop of the words</div>
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Sometimes, when he's taking a snooze in a nice, comfy bed, Bandit dreams of having longer legs.</div>
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Not to be perturbed by Turtle's unique interrogative style, he sat comfortably in his chair and watched as the tortoise began to cast his questions in the veil of song.<br />
He resisted the lure of a craftily worded sea shanty, withstood the power of an eighties-style rock ballad and even somewhat enjoyed Turtle's soft jazz stylings.<br />
But, although the tortoise had tried with all his might to glean just a sliver of information, it was not to be.<br />
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