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2024 February – Happy Birthday Mum, Portraits of the Year, Floody, Pensive, Penguin

Happy Birthday Mum

Thanks Saffron.

Obviously Mum is not 9.

Although she acts like it sometimes.

I wasn’t remotely interested in wishing her Happy Birthday.

In fact I was busy doing what, in my card, I had promised to.  The timing was perfect if I say so myself.   I don’t reckon I could do that again if I tried.

Needless to say I didn’t get a look in at the doughnut fest.

 

Portraits of the Year

Penny. Looking fabulous dahling.

     

Kobe, oh so handsome

And last but not least, c’est moi. Gorgeous.

If I say so myself.

Which I often have to.

 

Floody

Lots of places are pretty much underwater.  Makes it difficult to go for a walk as it is very mushy underfoot.

Looks pretty but it’s quite inconvenient for a doggo like me.

 

Pensive

Here is a picture of lovely me looking a bit pensive.

If you are pensive, you are thinking deeply about something, especially something that worries you slightly.  Mum worries me slightly if I am honest.  I am not sure she is really safe to let out.

Fortunately she has the offspring who seem to keep a bit of an eye on her.

She needs it.

I can’t do it all on my own.  I’m getting on a bit now I’ll have you know.

 

Penguin

In a fit of enthusiasm Mum painted this.

She is normally more used to slapping emulsion on the walls and ceilings so I feel she surprised herself slightly.

It’s OK I guess.

She could have painted a lovely yellow doggo though couldn’t she?

But no, an anonymous penguin.

Says it all really.

I know how Gromit feels.

 

 

 

Saffron’s recommendations this month:

Music:

 

This month we’re opting for a bit of Bread. Bread was an American soft rock band from Los Angeles, California. They had 13 songs chart on the Billboard Hot 100 between 1970 and 1977.  Mum loves their stuff.  Try this on for size.

  • Make it With You
  • Everything I Own
  • Guitar Man
  • It Don’t Matter to Me
  • Baby I’m a Want You
  • Aubrey
  • If
  • Diary
  • Sweet Surrender
  • Never Let Her Go
  • I Can’t Find the Words to Say Goodbye
  • Lost Without Your Love

 

Reading:

The Man Who Vanished and the Dog Who Waited by Kate High published by Constable.

Categorized as fiction, mystery, cosy mystery.  The ‘cosy’ bit put Mum off immediately but it’s ok actually. Summer in the Lincolnshire Wolds and Clarice is rung by her friend Louise, asking whether she can look after Susie, her son’s lively Boxer, as 41-year-old Guy has gone missing from the family home.  Not too challenging a read.

His mother thinks he has been suffering from depression but more worryingly, in his professional life, he had been working on a high-profile case, defending a known criminal. His home life was beset with problems too, which is why his mother has asked Clarice to look after the dog; Charlotte, Guy’s wife, just can’t cope with her as well as their three daughters.

 

Film:

Gotta be the Wallace and Gromit films eh?  Nick Park and Aardman Animations.  Mum got the first one on video tape (I know!) for the offspring when they were little.  A Grand Day Out. Classic.  Lots more to choose from now.

The Wrong Trousers

A Close Shave (with Shaun the sheep baaaaa)

The Curse of the Were Rabbit

A Matter of Loaf and Death

 

Shaun the Sheep had several spin offs including Shaun the Sheep Movie ; Farmageddon hehehe.

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