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2023 August – Bee Happy, Flying Books, Kobe van Gogh, Red Alert, Harvest, Chewy

Bee Happy

We all know how much Mum loves a bee. Here is one sitting on a flower that Mum has grown all by her clever little self.  I’m not that fussed about bees, I’d rather have a chew stick if it’s all the same to you.

I have also discovered that chewing a bee usually doesn’t end well.  For the bee or for me.

I have occasionally been known to ‘acquire’ a swollen lip when I’ve accidentally thought a bee was a fly.

It’s an easy mistake to make.

Especially when the sun is in your eyes.

 

Flying Books

Mum seems to be taking this new flying hobby pretty seriously.  She has purchased a text book on how to fly.

I’m sure it can’t be that difficult.  If I really wanted to do it I reckon I could, if I put my mind to it.  I just don’t want to.  I’d rather have a chew stick – have I mentioned that before?

Mum has passed 4 exams this month – she is quite determined; I’ll give her that.

 

Kobe van Gogh

Very artistic Kobe. Did you paint it all yourself??

Hello Penny! What’s occurring? Have you mislaid your yak chew by any chance?

This is me hoping for a treat. But not a yak chew.  I am not keen on those at all.

Mum let me try one  of Penny’s and I spat it out in disgust.  What was she thinking.   It was horrible.  I don’t know why you like them Penny.

I prefer chicken feet or chicken twists or chicken jerky – basically anything with chicken in the title suits me.

I am a simple soul.  None of this exotic yak stuff.

Thank you for offering though.

 

Red Alert

I am on red alert.  I have no idea what I’m on red alert for but you can never tell when something might kick off in this neighbourhood.   Things like other dogs walking past, or the postman, or a delivery person or a cyclist or a runner.

Some days it is just non-stop.

I don’t always bark at everything; some days I am quite selective but Mum doesn’t have a doorbell so I have to take on that role as well.

Mum says she doesn’t have a doorbell because she’s got me. I am quite loud in fairness.

Sometimes I reckon I scare the delivery drivers. They don’t tend to hang about anyway.

 

Harvest

It’s been pretty warm and the farmers have been busy doing their stuff.  Scorchio out today – lovely.

C’mon, keep up Mum.

 

Chewy

Finally, a proper chew stick.

A girl could waste away waiting for one of these.

 

 

Saffron’s recommendations this month:

Music:

A-ha is a Norwegian synth pop band formed in Oslo in 1982. Founded by Paul Waaktaar-Savoy (guitars and vocals), Magne Furuholmen (keyboards, guitars and vocals), and Morten Harket (lead vocals), the band rose to fame during the mid-1980s.

Love this

  • Take on Me
  • Hunting High and Low
  • The Sun Always Shines on TV
  • The Living Daylights
  • Stay on these Roads
  • Analogue
  • I’ve been Losing You

Oh yessss….

Reading:

The Children of Men by PD James published by Knopf.   Lots of great books to choose from by this author but why not try this one? It is a dystopian novel by English writer published in 1992. Set in England in 2021, it centres on the results of mass infertility. James describes a UK that is steadily depopulating and focuses on a small group of resisters who do not share the disillusionment of the masses.  

 

Film:

Well, TV really. The Handmaid’s Tale is an American dystopian television series based on the 1985 novel by Canadian author Margaret Attwood. The plot features a society following a Second American Civil War wherein a theonomic, totalitarian society subjects fertile women, called ‘Handmaids’ to child-bearing slavery.  It follows the journey of Offred, a Handmaid, as she tries to re-join her husband and daughter who escaped the regime.

It is addictive and slightly terrifying watching. Slightly terrifying because you can imagine it happening. Even in the USA.

 

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