Speedy happy ending?

[woolymonkey]

Thank you for all the kind offers of homes for Speedy.  We were planning to spend the weekend working out the best thing to do, but the decision has been made for us by a new offer today.  We heard from a family in Cambridge with a lonely lady tortoise called Toby.  (It's a long story.)  Toby is larger and enjoys a spacious, well-tortoise-proofed garden, so she ought to be able to keep him in his place in all senses.  We've thought for a long time the old reptile must be very lonely, and he certainly goes looking for love every May-June (and finds it occasionally in odd places like lumps of chicken wire).  So lets all hope Toby likes him.

Sorry to disappoint the many people who offered to have him.  It seems unfair to give him to the person who already has a tortoise, but we hope the outcome will be two very happy tortoises.  Who knows, perhaps there'll be tortoise eggs...

If Toby doesn't take to him, we'll have him back (or rather, we hope bugshaw, tamaranth and ozymandias_cat will) while we go back to the offers.  So please reply here or, better still, send me an email if you'd like to go on his waiting list.







Please can we have warm weather on Sunday afternoon?  We can't arrange a tortoise first date if it's too chilly for either of them to wake up.

Comments

[eglantine-br.livejournal.com]

I hope they fall into slow tortoise love!

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

"Hurrah!" says ozymandias_cat. "My TIGER BARN* will be mine again!"

*which is not now, nor has ever been, an upside-down rabbit hutch

[woolymonkey.livejournal.com]

Thank you ozymandias_cat. We know your wishes for Speedy and Toby to be happy together are heartfelt.

[ivory-goddess.livejournal.com]

Sunday I believe it's going to rain a lot. Saturday and Monday are more likely to be sunny.

Good luck with the meeting.

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

Perhaps she is truly Antobia, Ancient Goddess of Chelonia (or "Toby" for short).

If weather is bad on Sunday, I'm free on Monday...