2018 – June, Jungly and a Banker, Baby Bird, Have your Cake and Eat it

A bit Jungly and a Banker

This is me in the woods – it is a bit like a jungle

 

This is what it looks like from my viewpoint.

See what I mean?

 

Mum got very excited because she found wild honeysuckle.

I’m not so sure.  I suspect it is just honeysuckle that happens to be growing in a wood.

When we arrived at the car park today, there were 2 chaps next to a van sort of hovering around near where we were parking.   Mum did her usual and politely explained about me.

One of them was really nice and got out of the way and voluntarily hid behind a tree so Mum could get me out of the car.   The other one who seemed to fancy his chances, thought it would be funny to see if what Mum was saying about me was really true.   So he came and stood quite near the car.   Sometimes humans seem to presume that I will be like Mum, relatively forgettable and innocuous (no offence Mum).

Mum shrugged her shoulders and told him he had been warned and released me.

Well I couldn’t let Mum down now could I?   So I went absolutely crazy, really snarly crazy.  I reckon I put on a good show.  Lots of teeth.  I have great teeth.

He didn’t hang about is all I’m saying.

Mum was smiling to herself.  I saw her.

The first (nice) chap called his mate a banker or something like that and yelled sorry after us.

 

Baby Bird

Here is a picture of a baby bird which has landed on an offspring.  It is very cute.   It flew off quite safely a few minutes later.

 

Have your cake and eat it

This is me helping to make cakes.

I have made vanilla cup cakes.  They are apparently very tasty if I say so myself.  I’m not that interested in them once they’ve been cooked but I do like the cake mixture.

There usually isn’t enough mixture left in my opinion.

 

Saffron’s recommendations this month:

Music:  Oh yes, we’re going all Neil Diamond.  Such a distinctive voice.

Forever in Blue Jeans

Love on the Rocks (aaah, yes)

Sweet Caroline

I am I said

Hello Again

Cracklin’ Rosie

Solitary Man

 

Reading:

‘Perfume’ by Patrick Suskind, published by Penguin.

The story of a murderer. A meditation on the nature of death, desire and decay. Baroque inventiveness and sheer unpleasantness – unique in contemporary literature.  (Mum loves it, of course, but then she’s weird).

 

 

Film:

Brokeback Mountain starring Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal and apparently a Neo Western romantic drama. So there you are.

Oh and this – close, compassionate observation, deeply committed performances, a bone-deep feeling for hardscrabble Western lives. Few films have captured so acutely the desolation of frustrated, repressed passion.