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2024 March – QXC, Grass, Chilly at Holywell, Do Not Disturb, Duck House, Best Red Leicester

QXC

Mum is super excited because she’s completed her Qualifying Cross Country.

Looks neat doesn’t it?

There is a record of her actual flight which isn’t quite as neat.  A fair bit of orbiting while waiting to get clearances apparently. And a bit of a shimmy over the Norfolk fairground site to get into Norwich.  Mum’s view is that some of the VRP (visual reference points) might work at ground level but are not always obvious from the air.

She managed to negotiate 2 lots of controlled airspace.  I have no idea what that means. Mum seems extraordinarily chuffed though.

I will let her have her moment.

Never let it be said that I am not generous in spirit.

This is me listening to her bang on about the QXC.

You can tell from my face that I’m finding it riveting.

 

 

Grass

First cut of the year.  I am supervising.

I am always supervising Mum.

She knows I’ve got her back.

Sometimes at quite severe discomfort and sacrifice to myself.

I mean, do I look comfy?

Exactly.

 

 

Chilly at Holywell

    

But worth it.

Cold even in the sunshine. Nice warm cuppa sitting in the boot of the car after.

Not my cup of tea.

At all.

 

 

Do Not Disturb

I am quite happy sitting in my nice warm and cosy bed and not being disturbed, please and thank you.

 

So are Kobe and Penny.

You can’t blame us.

Humans are exhausting.

We need all the beauty sleep we can get.

 

 

Duck House

Mum went to a garden centre and saw this duck who had happily made her nest amongst the plants.

Quite a sensible choice actually.

It’s a bit too outdoorsy for my liking.

I am deffo an indoor kind of doggo.

 

 

 

Best Red Leicester

Mum does like a spot of cheese.  She even let me try some of this.

It’s not half bad.

I may have some more in a while.

 

 

 

Saffron’s recommendations this month:

Music:

The Tears for Fears duo – consisting of Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith – came together after their first band, the mod-style Graduate, fell apart.  Tears for Fears scored massive international hits in the 1980s and 1990s.

It’s Mum’s era.  What more can I say. Cool tunes.

  • Shout
  • Everybody Want to Rule the World
  • Mad World
  • Head Over Heels
  • Sowing the Seeds of Love
  • Woman in Chains
  • Break it Down Again
  • Pale Shelter
  • Advice for the Young at Heart
  • The Tipping Point

 

Reading:

Change Your Diet, Change Your Mind by Dr Georgia Ede published by Yellow Kite.  As most of you probably know, both Mum and I are on a Carnivore diet.  I’m not complaining.  I am a carnivore. I have the teeth to prove it.

This book attempts to reveal the most powerful (natural) way to change your brain chemistry is with food because that’s where brain chemicals come from in the first place.    You are what you eat eh?

Food for Thought

(see what I did there?)

 

 

Film:

Dune: Part Two.  (review from the Guardian) The second part of Denis Villeneuve’s monumental Dune adaptation lands with a sternum-juddering crash; it’s another shroom of a film, an epic sci-fi hallucination whose images speak of fascism and imperialism, of guerrilla resistance and romance. Villeneuve’s adaptation of Frank Herbert’s 1965 novel – working with co-writer Jon Spaihts – draws on David Lean, George Lucas and Ridley Scott’s Gladiator in the (perhaps inevitable) mega-stadium combat scene with the tiny billions of CGI crowds in the bleachers. But he really has made it all his own: secular political cruelty meets Indigenous people’s struggle in those vast mysterious planetscapes. 

Mum loved it.

Of course.

She read the book decades ago.

And there is a Dune Part 3 on the way which completes the Paul Atreides story arc.

Mum can’t wait.  But she’ll have to – it’s not due until 2026.

 

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