After telling the 3 wise uglies to just be themselves when they introduce themselves to the other guys, they had somewhat of a conference in the corner of the room - at the time I didn't quite know what to expect, but then Orange Ice-Bat came and asked me if he could borrow a few coins to visit the local supermarket, so of course I obliged his request.
In the last couple of minutes I was summoned to the living room by Babo who said that there had been a letter left for them stating "Tonight at 8pm, the most fantastic show in the world, be there or be square!".
We all gathered in the living room to find out what this could all be about, and as we sat on the couch all of a sudden all the lights went out to massive gasps from everyone as panic set in. Suddenly music started to play slowly and light started to appear from behind the living room table, everyone on the couch huddled closely together as they were both scared and excited.
Green Icebat rose high above the table and then slowly descended until he landed on the table upon which lots of coloured lights began to flicker behind him...all the uglies were cheering, whistling and clapping...the performance was an instant hit!!!
Saturday, 5 December 2009
Uglyworld #208 - Green Ice-Bat's Grand Performance
Uglyworld #207 - The 3 Wise Uglies
Having hidden in the shadows since their arrival last night (you can blame Ox for not noticing them, he was too busy playing on his skateboard) the 3 individuals approached me today to ask some advice.
It turns out that at this time of year in Uglyworld it's normal for "3 wise uglies" to be sent to visit some of the other uglydolls who live amongst humans and bring with them each a gift. I asked them if this mean that they would bring gifts like Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh detailed in the bible - the 3 of them just started laughing at me and I had no idea why.
After the one-sided mirth died away they announced that they were not carrying such gifts as this, so I asked them where the gifts were and they immediately got embarassed. I had to push them a few times before they were willing to answer my question.
Yellow Ice-Bat said he was carrying Swiss-Roll, Green Ice-Bat said he had been carrying Black Forst Gateau and Orange Ice-Bat said he had been carrying some Chocolate Chip Cookies. I pointed out to them once again that they were standing there with no gifts to which they replied, "It was a long journey from Uglyworld and we got hungry, so we had to eat them - but they were very very very tasty!!!".
The advice they asked of me was simple - what should they do now that they have no gifts to give the other uglies when they first meet them? I told them just to be honest and everything would work out fine....will it?...only time will tell...
Uglyworld #206 - Wage at Aachen Xmas Market
Having seen the photographs of Ice-Bat at the Weihnachtsmarkt in Freiburg during the week, Wage Jr was on my case almost non-stop to visit the Christmas market which is held at the main market square in our hometown of Aachen in Germany.
As the temperature is only JUST above freezing at the moment Mireille first made sure that Wage was dressed with his jumper and hat to keep him warm in the city, and then When we reached the market Wage made a bee-line for the food stalls first and ordered a couple of "reibekuchen" (what I would call a potato fritter if I was back home in Scotland) to eat.
Once the reibekuchen were finished we tried to find the best location for him to have a picture taken, Wage wasn't too happy with the first few shots taken at ground level around many of the market stalls, so he set about finding a better location. After 5-10mins of walking, stopping, walking, stopping, looking around and some more walking and stopping he finally realised that the stairs to the Rathaus (town hall) weren't looking too busy.
He stood on the wall of the stairs and posed with the colours of the market stalls behind him, so many people wanted to ask him where he was from and a few were more interested in his clothes - which when questioned he replied with "It's best to ask my Mama, she's over there - I'm very busy posing just now for my nice xmas picture".
Uglyworld #205 - Oblivious
Ox was so busy playing on his skateboard last night that he was completely oblivious to the three figures who were sneaking up behind him.
Having his earmuffs on didn't help matters as then he had no way to hear their footsteps and whispering as they got nearer and nearer.
Thursday, 3 December 2009
Uglyworld #204 - Tales From The Weihnachtsmarkt
When Ice-Bat and Wage arrived at Mireille's last night they were immediately surrounded by all of the other Uglies, they had been watching my Flickr all week for updated photographs from Freiburg and now they wanted to hear all about it in person.
Wage started to tell them the story about standing looking out of the window waiting on the sunrise which never came and then Ice-Bat took over with excitement about the sights, sounds and smells from the Weinachtsmarkt.
Everyone else was so excited that I think we'll have to arrange a family day out to the Aachen market soon!
Uglyworld #203 - Lunch near the Nurburgring
On the drive back from Freiburg today Wage noticed the signposts for Hockenheimring and the Nurburgring and got all excited as he thought we were going to visit one of them so that he could race around the track.
He was so disappointed when he discovered we had only planned to drive directly back to Aachen that he started sulking. I decided that I had better do something to cheer him up, so I pulled into a Burger King near Adenau (village close to the Nurburgring) and asked Wage and Ice-Bat what they wanted to eat.
Wage was amazed to see Lamborghini's and Porsche's in the carpark and wandered off muttering, "No food for me, I want to check out these awesome cars". Myself and Ice-Bat went inside and decided on a Big King XXL. There was so much food to eat that Ice-Bat didn't know where to start, so after a couple of minutes deciding he tucked into the french fries first!
Uglyworld #202 - Ice-Bat at the Weinachtsmarkt in Freiburg
Ice-Bat enjoyed visiting the Weinachtsmarkt so much that he asked some of the local people if he could pose for a picture beside their glasses of Gluhwein - of course they said yes and smiled as Ice-Bat had his picture taken.
Tuesday, 1 December 2009
Uglyworld #201 - Where is the Weinachtsmarkt?
Ice-Bat discovered that there is a weinachtsmarkt (christmas market) in Freiburg and set about working out where he could find it using a map of the city.
I asked him if he knew where the hotel was on the map and he said "sure, it's under my left foot".
Looks like we're going to visit it this evening.
Uglyworld #200 - Cookies to Celebrate!
This morning before leaving the hotel to go to the customer site I asked Wage and Ice-Bat what they would like to do for the 200th Uglydoll picture - at first they threw a few half-baked suggestions into the hat and then Ice-Bat asked if he could speak to Babo (as Babo is normally one of the uglies who comes up with the best ideas).
Ice-Bat was only on the phone for about 20 seconds when he hung up, I asked him if he had a plan? He said, "Babo is so smart, it was so obvious that we couldn't see it ourselves for looking - COOKIES!!!"
So this evening after work we took a walk down to a local supermarket where I left the pair of uglies to choose what they wanted - there were so many to choose from but eventually when Ice-Bat hovered over the Nippon biscuits (easiest way to explain them is a chocolate rice krispies cake) Wage was sold on the idea.
I made sure that before they could open the packet that they had to pose for the 200th Uglydoll picture I've taken, phew!
Uglyworld #199 - Freiburg at Night
When I woke up this morning the hotel room was freezing cold, I soon noticed Wage and Ice-Bat were standing at the open window looking out into the night.
At first I thought they were taking part in some bokeh ritual using the lights in the distance, but Wage informed me "we're waiting for the sunrise".
I tried to point out to the pair of them that the amount of cloud cover we had meant that it would only go from black to grey as dawn approached, but they wanted to stand there and wait anyway.
From the Uglydoll blog at adventuresinuglyworld.blogspot.com/
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