Jolly Monday — Food, Fun, and QUOKKAS!!!

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Good Monday morning, dear friends!  Are you ready to face the week head-on, to meet all those challenges that are out there just waiting for you?  Yeah … me too … let’s all just go back to bed.  But, since we can’t do that, let’s have a little snack and some fun stuff to fortify us for the week ahead, shall we?  Joyful has been working in the kitchen for a while now, so let’s go see what she’s got for us …

    

You might remember that I love quokkas, those cute little critters that are mostly found in Australia.  I came across some fun quokka memes and pictures that brought a smile to my face and I thought you might enjoy them, too!

I found some funny ‘toons for you guys … I hope you like ’em …

Here are a few things to jog your memories of days long gone …

And last but never least, we simply must have a cute critter video, yes?

Well, we’re sad to see you go, but … time stands still for no one, so we must get on with the business of the day, right?  There is a load of towels in the dryer calling out for me to come fold them, so … onward!  I hope you all have a wonderful week ahead and that you’ll share the smiles you found here today!  Love ‘n hugs from Filosofa, Jolly ‘n Joyful!!!

54 thoughts on “Jolly Monday — Food, Fun, and QUOKKAS!!!”

  1. Quokas are Soooo adorable!! I would love to see one close up, but don’t know if I want to travel the whole way to Australia, so thanks for pics. 🙂
    Laughter is always good! Poor Rooster, I wouldn’t be happy either about not getting to sleep in! “Second hand” shop, Haha! That would fit in my Friday’s post from this week. Its about PUNS> 🙂

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    • Oh, these days I think I might like to go to Australia … perhaps for an extended visit! They are mostly sane over there, they respect women and have very little prejudice against any group of people. Add in quokkas and koalas … heck, what’s not to like? I shall have to check out your Friday’s post … I’m getting behind again! Meanwhile, though, I’m glad you enjoyed Jolly Monday … on Saturday!

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    • I’m glad you enjoyed them! Yeah, ours are the grey variety too, and I dearly love them, they’re cute as can be, but that red squirrel rather won my heart, too. Since he’s in France, which isn’t all that far from you, I’m somewhat surprised you guys don’t have red squiggles, too!
      Cwtch

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      • WE DID HAVE RED SQUIGGLES, OUR NATTIVE SPECIES UNTIL SOMEONE IMPORTED THE GREY SQUIGGLE FROM AMERICA AND IT TOOK OVER ALL THE RED SQUIRRELS FOOD SOURCES FORCING THEM TO MORE AND MORE ISOLATED PLACES..THEY’RE AS RARE AS HENS TEETH NOW.
        Cwtch.

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  4. oooh, I only see now the squirrel video; so, so adorable! Ils parlent français, ces écureuils…
    They’re French speaking squirrels; do you know, btw, that there is really a squirrel bank in France, called la Caisse d’Epargne avec l’écureil en emblême…. It’s a mutual savings bank with many subsidiaries all over France. In the following link you can see the development of a recognisable squirrel to the now very abstract one. But it’s fun anyway, even though it’s clearly in French:
    https://www.moneyvox.fr/banque/actualites/59812/comment-ecureuil-est-devenu-embleme-de-la-caisse-epargne

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    • I figured they must be French-speaking squirrels! Fascinating article! (No, I don’t speak French, but Google Translate does!) It is indeed fun to have a squirrel as the emblem for a major bank! Thanks so much, Kiki!!! Also, I loved the video at the end!!! You’re brought a smile to my evening!

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  10. Love all this….so many memories as kid…we had it much better I think…riding bikes, skating, playgrounds all over and no worries about crime and crazy people. Also love the quokkas !

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    • As kids we probably had it much better because we did NOT have such things as cable tv, the internet, video games ‘n such, so we were outdoors playing, climbing trees, and making friends. However, looking back at the bigger picture of those days, the bigotry, the racism, was overwhelming … we just didn’t realize it then because we were kids! And … I remember in school, the air raid drills, having to fold ourselves under our desks … the cold war. So, every era has its ups and downs, but yes, I think kids were healthier both physically and emotionally back then because of their lifestyle.

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    • Ha ha … yep, the kangaroo one was just too good to pass up!!! And I’m glad you loved the quokkas … I think they, along with koalas, are the cutest of all critters. Why does Australia get all the cutest ones???
      Have a good week, Sir Roger!

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          • Unfortunately we don’t have any animals of the furry kind, in fact no terrestrial mammals at all. Can I interest you instead in the world’s heaviest insect (the wētā, which outweighs a mouse), a giant carnivorous land snail, or the world’s most intelligent bird (the kea, which is also the world’s only alpine parrot)

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            • How did that happen? I never knew there was any nation that had no furry animals. Not even a monkey or a rabbit? No, I’m not a big fan of large insects, but thank you anyway! 🤣 Now, the Kea sounds like fun … I should like to see those up close. But you can keep the wētā away from me, please!

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              • From Te Ara New Zealand Encyclopedia:
                In New Zealand, whole groups of animal species common in other land masses are absent, or very poorly represented. The most notable group is land mammals: apart from two surviving bat species, there are none. Almost everywhere else on earth, mammals are prominent or dominant. There is no evidence that reptilian groups such as iguanids (a type of lizard) and snakes ever established in New Zealand. Groups such as ants, and many other families of animals without backbones, are also poorly represented.

                When the land mass that became NZ broke away from the ancient super continent of Gondwana some 80 million years ago it didn’t have any mammals on board. Gondwana broke into present day South America, Africa, Arabia, Madagascar, India, Australia, and Antarctica, with NZ went along with Antarctica for a while before going its own way. So NZ developed a unique set of flora and fauna found nowhere else.

                Every niche that is occupied by mammals elsewhere has been filled by birds, and to a lesser extent by insects. Weta occupy a niche typically occupied by mice elsewhere It also explains why a great many of our native bird species are flightless. The top of the food chain was the Haast’s eagle capable of bringing down a 240 Kg (530 lb) moa – large ostrich-like birds. Both the moa and the Haast’s eagle were here when humans first arrived on these shores in the 13th century. The humans (ancestors of present day Māori) hunted the moa to extinction within 200 years and that sealed the fate of the Haast’s eagle. Māori mythology that tell of a giant bird that killed humans and carried away babies probably refer to the Haast’s eagle.

                Of our 70,000 known native species of fauna and flora, a large percentage are endemic (found nowhere else in the world).

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  14. A brilliant collection of laughs and fun. Thank you so much. And hopefully I’ll now have my shower and hair wash (instead of reading blogs on my smartphone and not doing anything…)

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    • I’m so glad you found some laughs here this morning! Best of luck on the shower/hair-washing! I know how it goes, though … the intentions are good, but you get engrossed in something — blogs, the news — and before you know it, four hours have passed!

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