2019 November – Fairy feet, Last Chance, Vampires and Werewolves
Fairy Feet
This is a picture of me investigating some more ‘shrooms.
If you look carefully you can see them trailing off into the wild woods, like a fairy footpath. (Maybe Mum’s been on the ‘shrooms herself eh?)
Last Chance
This is a picture of me helping with the decorating.
Apparently it’s my last chance to help.
Mum says after this room is finished she’s not going to be contemplating any decorating in the near future, but thank you for asking.
Finally, the last bit of pink, paint splattered carpet is gone.
Apparently new carpet is arriving imminently and not a moment too soon if you ask me. You try being a dog and getting comfortable on a slab of cold concrete. You can probably tell what I think of that.
This is much better.
Although the carpet is grey (er…dove grey according to Mum) so it still looks like concrete. More comfortable though.
Vampires and Werewolves
Now that Mum isn’t having to decorate in the evenings, she collapses with a glass of vino and watches escapist documentaries on Netflix all about Vampires and Werewolves. She’s watching The Originals at the moment.
I doze off quite often but I reckon I’ve got the gist of it. Basically because of my heritage I should really be a werewolf but I’m feeling I might be more of a vampire.
Here’s my self assessment list:
Werewolf
- Canine- tick
- Plenty of visible teeth – tick
- Furry coat – Tick
- Rapid and on four legs – Tick
- Scary, snarly and growly with strangers – tick
Vampire
- Raw food diet – tick
- Fangs (nice canines Saffron) – tick
- Vamp speed (yes, you know I can) – tick
- Vamp compelling (if I stare hard enough at Mum she gives me a treat) – tick
- Loner but needs humans to survive – tick
So basically I must be a hybrid.
In The Originals, the hybrids are in human form so I must be exceptionally rare. I expect you will see a documentary film crew around here soon.
I’ll let you know when they arrive.
I’m sure Netflix would love it.
I could be a star.
Saffron’s recommendations this month:
Music: The Rolling Stones. Going for 6 decades and what a (tumultuous) career. There’s a lot to choose from. Here are a few tracks. You’ll know most of them I expect. And if you don’t, well now’s your chance……
Start Me Up
Angie (nice)
Wild Horses (so good)
Paint it Black
Sympathy for the Devil
(I can’t get no) Satisfaction
Fool to Cry (oh yesssss)
Get Off of My Cloud
Brown Sugar
Reading: Stay with me on this one…..a children’s book – The Fish Who Could Wish, by John Bush and Korky Paul, published by Oxford University Press. Silly and yet weirdly profound at the same time…
In the deep blue sea, In the deep of the blue, Swam a fish who could wish, And each wish would come true.
He wished for a castle, He wished for a car, But one day he wished, Just a little too far…..
Film: High Rise starring Tom Hiddleston, Jeremy Irons, Sienna Miller, Luke Evans. British made and based on the ’75 novel of the same name, a dystopian film based around a 40 story luxury tower which effectively invites its residents to become disengaged with and isolated from the outside world. The consequences play out – occasionally violently. Slightly odd but interesting – worth a watch.
In the news:
2nd month in a row, more than 100 flood warnings issued in the UK with some areas receiving a month’s worth of rainfall in 24 hours. The torrential downpours, were described as ‘almost biblical’
Extinction Rebellion wins a High Court challenge against the Met Police over the London-wide ban on protests
The UK terrorism threat is reduced from “severe” to “substantial” for the first time since 2014
Then… a mass stabbing at a London Bridge venue. The suspect, wearing a hoax explosive device, is shot by police and dies at the scene. The attack is considered terror-related
Prince Andrew and that interview with Emily Maitlis. Oh dear.