Croix Parler

[Croix]

I'd like to use this pace for miscellaneous matters that don't fit elsewhere

Thanks

Croix

[Eagle Ray]

Hello dear Croix and All,

Well, um, speaking of amphibians, Professor Porpoise was working on breeding a cold climate frog that got a bit out of hand. So there’s now one or two or (ahem) maybe a million frogs on the iceberg.

This has coincided with an event in Hollywood where, after years of being bossed around, Kermit has finally dropped Miss Piggy. On hearing about the iceberg’s frog population, Miss Piggy has showed up in search of a new suitor. As the only shelter available, the igloo has become her interview room. Frogs are lining up to impress her, some working out to show off their muscles and others reading impressive works of poetry, unfortunately interrupted at times by sounds emanating from nearby inebriated kiwis. Penguins have been employed in makeup, fashion and hairstyling to keep Miss Piggy looking resplendent as she seeks a new froggy.

So, um, there may be a place to sleep in the igloo for you Croix. It’s just a bit squashed at the moment between a frog workout gym and Miss Piggy’s entourage of serving penguins plus a rather large volume of eager to impress frogs. Miss Piggy is certainly hard to impress with loud commands of “Next!” after each frog audition/interview/date - whatever you call this procession of hopeful frogs seeking to become the next Kermit. So that’s all that’s happening - nothing much really (ahem).

I am going ok. It’s been an eventful time of late. I’m much better than I was since the bad experience with EMDR. I’ve managed to work with my psychologist too to repair the rupture that occurred following that and she has been kind and supportive. I’m coming to terms with the reality too that I have a dissociative disorder, either OSDD or Partial DID. I’m realising an inner team of dissociative identities that have been there my whole life but were largely amorphous dissociative states since childhood and have emerged more clearly as distinct alters in the last 6 months. I’m largely co-conscious with them which makes it easier than the amnesia that can exist with full DID. However, I’m becoming aware of some amnesia episodes, again that have always been there but being a covert disorder that’s been often hidden from me I’m now learning to detect it (very hard to explain). I’m also dealing with some health challenges too but navigating my way.

I hope your health things can be clarified and worked on soon once the further testing is done. Yes, it would be hard for Mrs C and I’m sure she and Sumo are glad to have you home. I am picturing Sumo being ‘busy’. I’m glad you have the fire to keep warm, such a lovely, comforting thing.

Warm hugs,

ER

[Croix]

Dear ER and all~

I saw one instance of Ms Piggy being properly prepared, Google Images "Mona Moi" if you are not familiar with it.

You will be happy to know the frog plague is steadily diminishing, I persuaded the Swedish Chef (YheeerU, bork bork bork) that French cuisine was tailor made for him and since then cuisses de grenouille and escargot, have become very much in demand at discerning restaurants such as Maxims, though to be honest I'm not sure we can keep up the escargot side. Any suggestions?

Kermit has of course been keeping well away and has taken up his microphone,  trench-coat and trilby to return to his old job as a newscaster/reporter interrupting "your regularly scheduled programme" with "late-breaking news".

I had been worried about the longer term effects of the EMDR on you, and am very please that you have been able to 'repair the rupture'. It also sounds like you are getting some explanations to cover episodes that were hard to understand. I'm sure how you expereince htem must be very hard to explain.

My garden and side paddock contains a fair bit of wild life on occasions. Rabbits tend to be busy digging, bandicoots borrowing their burrows and wallabies occasional reside between travels throughout other people's back yards (we a a spread put rural town). Birds tend to be seasonal with wattle birds making noises like rusty tin cans, gala's rhythmic screaming ot be fed, wrens, white-eyes and blackbirds of course.

The latest addition is a ring-tail possum who uses the overhead fencing wire and pipe between water tank and house roof as a highway. Looks cute with its tail curled around the wire for balance.

How are you getting on Paws?

Croix

[Eagle Ray]

Hello Croix, Paws, Quirky and anyone else reading,

I looked up “Mona Moi”. Yes, Miss Piggy is most elegant 😂

Hmmm 🤔 Perhaps French cuisine is the new go for the iceberg. But this will mean addressing the need for escargot 🐌 I believe there is a newly discovered giant Antarctic land snail, previously unknown to science (I’m not sure how, given its giant proportions). It may be well adapted to the iceberg and offer great creative culinary options to the Swedish Chef. As Miss Piggy is so picky with the frogs, perhaps she may be partial to a snail 🤣 Though, unlike Kermit, giant Antarctic land snails can be formidable when it comes to pushy diva pigs. She might have met her match 😆 Things could get complicated if Kermit ends up being the reporter covering the opening of the new French restaurant on the iceberg. There might be a frog-snail-pig love triangle, as he struggles to cope with realising he has lost Miss Piggy to a snail. He better be careful as he might get slimed 🐌🫣

Yes, I’m relieved to be recovering from the EMDR experience. I was at risk for a number of reasons including complex dissociative issues and a highly sensitive neurodivergent brain. I feel there needs to be far more awareness out there about the risks as well as benefits. It does really benefit some people but must be done with great care. It’s still left me feeling quite vulnerable and took a huge toll on me, but I’m practising radical acceptance and I am happy to have repaired the rupture as my psychologist is a good person and on the same page in many other ways. It was good for me to communicate through the issues rather than just abandon trying to repair things.

I have the wattlebirds making those noisy tin can sounds too. I also get those baby galahs screeching and always think their parents deserve a bird of the year award for coping with such raucous, demanding babies. It’s nice hearing about the cute new possum visitor. The possums I get here are the Western Ringtail Possums, considered a vulnerable species, so it feels like a privilege to have them here.

Hoping you are going ok Paws. What do you think of snails on the iceberg? 🤔

Hugs,

ER

[Croix]

Dear ER and all~

Sounds rather like Dr Doolittle's 'Great Glass Snail', which was said to be "about the size of a horse and the shell is made of mother of pearl, but is transparent". It would break Star Trek's prime directive to interfere with a sentient species, and preparing a Great Glass Snail for the pot could well be seen as interference.

Croix

[Eagle Ray]

Dear Croix and All,

Hmm, it might be a bit late as a snail farm has already been established on the iceberg to supply the Swedish Chef with culinary delights. The slime trails are making things very slippery though so the kiwis are falling over even more than usual. At least they are so inebriated that they fall with a relaxed thud and don't hurt themselves. The penguins thought they may have to act as shepherds for the snail farm, but have realised herding snails is rather slow and boring and the snails can't escape from the iceberg anyway. They have turned their attention now to carving a "Great Glass Snail" out of the ice in the likeness of Dr DooLittle's snail which they think may increase tourism to the iceberg, along with the novelty of seeing the world's first snail farm.

Meanwhile, Miss Piggy has fallen in love with Sylvester the Snail, the latter whom has modelled himself on Sylvester Stallone as Rocky. She is very impressed with his muscles. If her diva behaviour gets too much he can just hide in his shell for a while. He has decided her melodramatic style is worth it for the fame he will gain from being the beau of a Hollywood Star (he must be a rather vain snail). The other snails are jealous too, as he has been spared a fate in the Swedish Chef's restaurant. Though he is trying to persuade Miss Piggy to embark on a protest for snail liberation to free his comrades. So there could be a coup on the island where snails overthrow their oppressors. It will be interesting to see how this unfolds. I hope this won't keep you awake at night Croix? 

Hugs,

ER

[Eagle Ray]

P.S. That was meant to say iceberg, not island. I have been imbibing too much with the kiwis, not to mention going for slippery slides on snail slime trails 🐌

[Croix]

Dear ER and All~

I'm not at all sure Sylvester Snail would be safe in his shell, remember Ms Piggy's war cry “Hi-yah!” accompanied by her fearsome karate kick.

Why don't you have clams on the men so a put-upon walrus can have a feed?

-C

[Eagle Ray]

Dear Croix and All,

Oh no! I forgot about Miss Piggy's karate kick 😲😬 Sylvester will have to invest in some sort of protective gear. He certainly won't be able to move fast enough to escape it. Unless Professor Porpoise can come up with a potion that transforms snails into speedsters - defying their natural evolution 🤔

Ah, yes, good idea. Clams on the menu it is. The only catch is that part of the restaurant's unique feature is that every single dish must contain snails. So you can look forward to:

Clam and Snail Chowder

Clam and Snail Pizza

Escargot and Clams with Garlic, Parsley Butter

Those are just the few clam dishes worked out so far. I hope your tastebuds are excited?!

Hee hee!

ER

[Croix]

You sure know how to ruin a good menu!

-C

[Eagle Ray]

I thought you would like to know Croix that the restaurant has been officially named. Although technically a French restaurant, the Swedish Chef has decided on a decidedly English name - The Snail & Walrus (as in the style of many British pubs, e.g. The Slug & Lettuce or The Pig & Whistle).

I want to assure you this does not mean walrus is on the menu. It was just decided that your presence on the iceberg is so iconic that it was thought a good marketing strategy. Billboards have been placed in the ocean in view of passing cruise ships with you pictured next to a giant Antarctic Land Snail in the hope such ships will stop by for some snail cuisine 🐌😋 The penguins took the candid photo of you when you weren’t looking and photoshopped it in. They were able to do this legally as the iceberg lies outside all jurisdictions and there are no laws about using one’s likeness in advertising. I hope you don’t mind too much. At least you will be famous!

Hee hee!

ER