I am going through a mound of twenty months worth of mail at the moment – not fun believe me. However, today I met my friends 9 month old baby Tristan so that was a great distraction. Another funny thing was walking through Mill Valley square and being stopped by a gentleman who asked if I had lived on base in South Georgia! He had been on a cruise over a year ago and remember me. What are the odds.

So one of the many items in my mail was a clipping my mother saved from the newspaper entitled ‘Penguin returns to closet’… See below

A gay male penguin has caused uproar in San Francisco by leaving his long-term mate for a female. For six years, two male birds, Harry and Pepper. lived happily together at the city zoo, raising chicks from eggs that had been abandoned by other birds. Now, however, Harry has moved into a neighbouring nest with a female called Linda.

Harry Edell, curator of birds, revealed that he had received outraged message of protest from supporters of gay penguins rights. “People think we seperated them on purpose, but whenever there’s a single bird on the island, there’s always a dash to find another mate or lose their burrow,’ he said. ‘There’s no explaining love.’

All I can say is only in San Francisco!

And right across from this is another short entitled ‘Fatal Attraction’

Let this be a lesson to you, chaps; a randy sea lion has died from exhaustion after a lengthy mating session. Mike, from the animal park in Nuremberg, enjoyed such an exhausting time with his three mates – Farah, Tiffy and Soda – that staff had to help him out of the pool. Three hours later he died from heart failure.

Mike wouldn’t have lasted long in SG where the fur seal harems are normally considerably larger than three females and the bulls have to defend their territory!