You may know me from my attire.  It’s not just everyday drab that I wear.  I’m a tuxedo-ed gent of the South Pole and my name is Leon.  Let me just say that I may appear cute and cuddly to everyone, but I definitely don’t just dress to impress. 

My days are usually slow and methodical, and today seemed as though it was starting like nothing out of the ordinary.  I’d hunkered down with my lady overnight, we had to huddle it was pretty chilly, freezing in fact!  We kept rotating around each other in our little bubble all night, but Cyril, Fred and Daphne seriously kept annoying me all night.  Thank goodness It was time to feast again and so I had to prepare to leave to go out to sea for another long-feeding session.  I am sooo not looking forward to this I can tell you.  But somebody has to do it.  And I’m the man for the job!

While striding along to my local ice pond, my feet start to go numb and I can see my breath but nothing I can’t handle. Once I finally arrive at the ice pond one of my mates are here that live in the neighbourhood so we start to have a yarn “Hey Lenny,” I say, He reply’s “Hey dude, how’s the wife and kids?”  “Good thanks, you?”   “Yeah there okay but my wife is a big pa…!” we were interrupted by the neighbourhood bully Patrick the Polar-bear and it looks like he is hungry suddenly a loud roar pierced the silence and Patrick was charging us so we quickly thought on our feet and dived into the pond and lucky for us Patrick is not a very good swimmer. We just kept swimming and swimming and more swimming but finally we were ready to chek to see if he’s goneand lucky for us. Lenny and I were a bit spooked so Lenny decided to head home but my family needed food so I started to fish once again. It took me two hours to find 6 fish but it was already dark and I was sarting to get paranoid, looking behind me every five seconds so I decided to pack up and head home.

The trip home wasnt good, my feet were sore, my back was sore, It was freezing cold and i’m just sick of it but i guess it’s just another day in the life of a penguin.