Soo-Cheese!

"See-weed!????!"

cried Daisy quite aghast! 

"You eat See-weed!?"

"Yes... SEAWEED... MMMmmm MMmm MMmmm" said the little crab... 

it's quite a delicacy!

"hmmm..... smells a bit fishy to me..." murmured Daisy.

In fact she was so shocked she forgot to blog about it for one year and four whole months!

"Urgh! It doesn't taste anything like grass, don't you have some nice hay I can eat round the the back somewhere?" she sniffled suddenly homesick.

"Well what we do to make it REALLY nice is wrap it around some cold rice with a bit of raw fish in the middle..." said the crab encouragingly licking his claws together "Maybe I have some hidden under a rock nearby if you want to visit?"

Daisy hesitated but then she realised she was here to have adventures, even if it was in strange foreign food.

"Uh OK..."

But right then and there what should happen but another cow appeared!

"Hellmooo!"

"Er hello!" Daisy piped up excitedly "Where did you come from?"

"I came across the sea from that little island over there, I had to wait until now because you can only cross when the tide goes out. It's a special road to the island called a "Cowsway"

"My name's Soo, Soo the Coo"

(That's funny I thought all cows were called daisy..)
"Nice to meet you I'm Daisy!"

"Well we're just off  to check out this crab's delicacy of raw fish, cold rice and seaweed" mentioned Daisy cheerfully trying to make the ingredients sound more appealing with a upbeat tone!

"Ooooooo! OOOO are we going eat Soo-Cheese!!??"

"MY FAVOURITE" 

said the new cow

and off they went... 

New Pastures!

The good thing about being a cow Daisy thought as she hopped out of the big silver avión is that Cows eat grass and you can find grass everywhere......

Well not quite everywhere.....

All-Packing...!

So after travelling around the countryside for a while Daisy was becoming quite confident.. follow a sheep trail here, hop over a small stile there, avoid farmers, sheep dogs and bulls when you are wearing your brand new bright red hat!

Then one fine morning quite unexpectedly she jumped over a small hedge only to find herself landing not on freshly chewed grass as she had anticipated but instead she landed on something warm, and soft, and really rather furry!!!

"mgulphsfumph!" yelped the furry thing!
"Why I'm most terribly sorry!" mumbled Daisy shaking herself down and picking herself and the furry thing up!
"urghgumplfiedcow" was the somewhat strained reply...
"Hello I'm Daisy! - and you must be...um.... a sheep?" she queried hesitantly, as Daisy had never seen quite such a sheep before and sheep usually spoke baaglish a language she was more familiar with.

"Aha! Well, Daisy the cow eh, I had heard all cows were called Daisy, might I enquire whether you have some form of problem with your eyesight?" replied the furry thing having fully regained the power of language.
"Not at all why?"
"Well quite apart from the fact that you clearly mistook me for some kind of landing ramp, you've now insulted me further by implying that I, king of the Alpaca tribe of field South-East-B, am some kind of sheep!?!"
"Er, I'm terribly sorry, I must admit I thought you were some grass but now I can quite clearly see you are of royal breeding stock and um, oooh are you an All-packer?, how exciting! um, your royal highnessessess!"
"Yes, an A-L-P-A-C-A"
"That's what I said an ALL-PACKER"
"Hmm, well that's sort of what I am, anyhow more importantly what might I ask are you doing jumping into my kingdom all unannounced? Are you on some kind of assassination mission?" the King eyed her suspiciously...
"Oh sorry! Not at all! I'm going on an adventure"
"An adventure eh? Well you must be headed for the aeropuerto, next field along..Goodbye!"
"Um, sorry again your highnessessess, er what? What is an aero...per...to? And why would I be going there?"
"Sigh, you see that really big loud bird up in the sky?"
"Yes the shiny one! I see it, I seee it!"
"Ok, well they are specially commissioned birds that carry Alpacas all over the world so they can try out new fields and develop new Kingdoms. They carry humans too so I daresay they might take cows... although you are rather large...."
"There's no need to be rude" said Daisy rather embarressed now.."my mum said I was just big boned..." she mumbled turning slowly red "And could I travel with one of these birds? What if they dropped me, I can't fly!?!"
"Don't worry you can't drop out! And they don't like being called birds they have a special name avión I tell you what come with me I'll explain what you do...."

So the King of the all-packers and Daisy the cow strolled across his field kingdom towards the big field where the shiny birds lived. Daisy felt very special and royal as all the all-packers turned to look as they went past, they nodded their heads and whispered amongst themselves....

At the other end of the field they looked over the fence at a big shiny avión.
"OOOhhhh" cried Daisy "it looks huge!"
"Right this is what you do" announced the King of the All-packers with royal authority, "You don't have to queue or produce a ticket or anything that's just for the humans - we animals are far to important for that. We have our own entrance round the back. You just stick one of the those big stickers that says 'Live Cargo' to yourself and stand there beside all those big boxes and wait to be loaded through the big doors!"
"And what happens then?" asked Daisy now slightly apprehensive..
"Ah well you arrive in a foreign land set for adventure and excitement of course" said the King somewhat enthusiastically!

And that was the right thing to say as Daisy was all about the adventure...!
"Bye!!!!!!!!" said Daisy as she vaulted over the fence! "Thankyou! Maybe I could send you back a nice hat?"
She couldn't quite make out what he said but she thought it might have sounded like "...crown.."

And off she went, in a big shiny bird, to foreign lands, whatever they were!!!!

I wonder if I should have checked what "foreign" was she thought as the avion took off.....

Valentines Barn Dance!

Daisy always liked February... mainly because she was born in February but also becauze it's the month of LOVE!

One day a cow called Daisy...

One day a cow called Daisy (because everybody knows all cows are called Daisy) woke up and decided to do something with her life.

‘All I do is live on this farm’, she thought, ‘I sleep and eat and eat and sleep and sometimes the farmer milks me or I chat to the sheepdog but there must be more to life surely? I’d like to see the world, travel to far off places or at least to the next farm. I hear they have pigs there and some creatures called ‘All-Packers’ who the sheepdog tells me are much furrier than cows.’

Hoping to catch sight of the ever elusive ‘All-Packers’ Daisy leaned over a bale of straw to peer out from hole in the old barn wall….
‘Oooooooo’ she murmured with delight and wonder for the most AMAZING thing had happened.

The whole world that just yesterday had been all shades of colours from grey to green with lots of browns and yellows and reds and blues and all things in between, the whole wide world had overnight turned completely and utterly WHITE!

‘Quick’ yelled Daisy’s friend Daisy (because everybody knows all cows are called Daisy)
‘We’re all going out to make snowcows!’

And off they went to play in the whiteness…

Suddenly, standing udder-high in sparkling white cold snow Daisy had an idea!
If she could only make her snowcow look just convincingly enough like herself that the farmer counting his cows from a distance might not notice that she was missing… (at least not until the snow melted anyhow) … then that would leave her enough time to sneak through the gap in the fence and out into the big wide white world and on to cow freedom….

and so she did,

and that was the start of all her adventures!