Turning Over A New Leaf: Episode 8 – ‘The Bug-Off Bog-Off.’

More proof that Blathers is a stoner.

He stood there, staring at me like I was a giant polka dot talking jellybaby, before telling me I have no fossils to inspect and finding it funny.

Memo to myself: mandatory drug testing for all Dalby civil servants.

At least the aquarium is shaping up nicely, although Kevin took time from gazing at himself in the mirror to tell me his Aquarium Conspiracy Theories.

Watch that hammerhead turn – a picture of grace.

Ocean sunfish look like half a fish. Were they evolution’s way of creating the perfect kids portion fish and chips?

It wasn’t much of a day for going out, with the rain on limiting the insects to catch. However you do get different fish appearing in the water, including this beauty.

Yeah, a coelacanth (pronounced Seal-a-canth) – how cool is that? The living fossil – they date back to before the time of the dinosaurs.

I really, really worry about what sort of childhood traumas Blathers went through to make him take to whatever medication he’s on.

Similar name, different gag.

Even if she looked ridiculous, I’d still say she looked sweet. It’s impossible to be horrible to Fauna. She’s kind to all and does a fair bit of watering and planting flowers. Definitely a keeper.

Kevin meanwhile was taking his ego for a walk when he accousted me at the noticeboard. Modest and self-effacing as ever. I swear if he was made into a bacon butty, he’d eat himself.

This could be Kevin’s French cousin.

Camofrog is also doing his best to dim my enthusiasm to the locals. Sylvia however boosted my ego saying I was the reason she moved here. Emmmmm, did I do mayoring in a previous life?

What the tooting are these? Does a percoloid make coffee?

Gyroids appear in the ground during or after rain. They come in a set of two to four, all making different noises. If you can get a set that go together, they can make a nice addition to the house.

Or you can sell them like you do spare fossils, but try keeping ones you don’t want as the villagers love them as presents.

Fossils are fab. Stick them in the museum to make everyone happy, or if it is a doubler sell it to Reese for lots of money, usually about the 5000 mark.

Elsewhere, Tom Nook’s still squeezing me for Bells.

No wonder he and his brother look like they’re wearing masks, the pair of highway robbers.

Paid off in one go – hope it chokes him!

He doesn’t give up with the hard sell, does he?

The Bug-Off was today, but I didn’t take part. It wouldn’t be right in my first month here to be kicking everyone’s butt in contests, so I opted to ignore it.

The whole caper looks like a scheme by that Nat to get others to stoke his larder for him.

At least Fauna won – bet Camofrog and Maelle will be pains in the butt at being second and third though.

How droll Camofrog: haven’t laughed so much since deciding to get a hot spa built so when you go in I’ll have it turned up to boiling – you know what they say about boiled frogs…

Anyway, I won the real Bug-Off today. Shook down a bee hive, but my net got the attacking bees in time. Uber-Pwnage!