Friday 30 October 2020

Last Minute Halloween Preps

You find us in hectic, last minute preparation mode for our annual Iris and Bertie Halloween Sleepover.

Our Tesco order arrived this morning with, thankfully, no substitutions, but including a very nicely proportioned 65p pumpkin ….

Our cupboards are bulging with celebratory and festively apt comestibles and our halls, well, they’ve been well and truly decked since the beginning of October …….

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…… however, despite Darrell’s Halloween Spreadsheet appearing to include everything that had to be done, we’d still, somehow, managed to forgot the doctoring of Iris and Bertie’s (Christmas) crackers …….

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…… removing the innards like the Christmas motto and substituting them with something a little more exciting than just a wiggling fish that purports to tell your fortune!

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That being said, it didn’t take all that long with every single monkey, man and boy, working hard at the helm ……..

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All we need to do now is get a good nights sleep ……. 

....... for tomorrow and Sunday we shall party like little spooks and spectres have never partied before……. bring it on!

Thursday 29 October 2020

Muller Pink Flamingo Balls

I think Darrell may have just found our next comestible review of noms  ………

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……. as he was finishing his Muller Limited Edition Jam Roly Poly yoghurt, he thought he’d take a closer look at the flyer he’d found at the bottom of its six pack packaging ……..

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……. it made for very interesting reading ……..

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……. I mean, who wouldn’t be tempted by the thought of finding pink flamingo balls in your dessert, even if they do look a little smaller than you anticipated they might?

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So, bless him, Darrell has already started to plan his next shopping trip …….

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……. and says he will not rest until he secures one or two pots for our considered delectation.  What is he like?

Wednesday 28 October 2020

Window Vigilante

Poor Nigel, what part of a large metal cage, a huge padlock and chains plus an unmissable sign that says “This Footpath Is Closed”  in capital letters are people not seeing?

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But, according to the little fella, you just wouldn’t believe the number of people who wiggle their way through, only to then beat a very hasty retreat.

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……. and it’s driving him mad …….

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…….. it’s dangerous down there ………

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……. he also reckons that if he had a pound for every time he’s seen it happen, he’d be able to buy us all humungous Christmas presents this year, the biggest turkey Darrell has ever seen ….. plus a really posh Harrods Christmas pudding!  What is he like?

Tuesday 27 October 2020

Man, Almost, Overboard.

Nigel reckons he really needs a deckchair next to the window when things are occurring of an exciting bridge type nature.

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Yesterday, things looked to be getting a little on the precarious side on board the Patrol Boat …….

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…… so much so that Nigel was mentally preparing to put on his red Bay Patrol shorts, googles, flippers and rubber ring …….

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…… in order to mount a heroic rescue operation …….

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……. fortunately, help was on hand ……..

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…… and a man overboard situation quickly averted ……

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…… much, to be honest, to Nigel’s relief, bless him, as the water has been looking rather cold of late, where even our daily robust and enthusiastic wild water swimmers appear to have given up the ghost now!

Monday 26 October 2020

Isn’t Nature Wonderful

It would appear that we not only have moles ………

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…….  not of a small, coloured spot type nature, but those of the subterranean, velvety fur, short sighted, digging persuasion.

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…… but we also fairy rings ……….

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……. little clusters of assorted toadstools, no doubt teeming with mystical magic and an apt discovery considering that the Feast of All Hallows is all but a few days away.

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I wonder what Nigel will be most excited about when I tell him the news  ……

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……… trying to charm said moles to leave their holes with prime worm specimens  or  negotiating an excellent rate of exchange with the fairies for Iris’s first very wobbly tooth?

Friday 23 October 2020

Nigel Muses The Mysteries Of The Sea

It has to be said that crustaceans are something of a rarity here in land locked Evesham ……

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…….. however, trust Nigel to stumble across some.

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Not the most seasonal of homages, when most of the other shop windows in Evesham are brimming with pumpkins, ghosts, ghoulies and cauldrons …….

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……. but still, any display is always much appreciated by Nigel, who mused that perhaps we shouldn’t assume that the supernatural is exclusively bound to the land, perhaps the undersea world is teaming with ectoplasm and the ethereal. What about mermaids? Are they really the spirits of the sea? Perhaps that’s what dolphins have been trying to telling us for years, that they are spooked, but we don’t understand.  OMG, what is he like?

Thursday 22 October 2020

Improvised Adaptations Of A Festively A La Mode Type Nature

With us all suitably donned in our festive Halloween apparel Nigel decided that this year we were missing something of great import ……… so off he popped into town ……

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…… returning within the hour with a “relevant gift of our times” for both Darrell and I.

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What can we say?

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He was pretty chuffed with himself, as were we, with our presents, however on closer inspection none of us could be entirely sure just how robust and protective said masks would be in the public arena  as they only consisted of one layer ……….

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…….now, not wishing to upset Nigel, but ever the style guru, Darrell quickly thought of an alternative way of wearing them, keeping in the spirit of the season  ………

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……. by suggesting, instead, that both he and I put our arms through the ear slits and then fashion the masks into a sort of short tabard/scarf neck ensemble …… the boy is a genius!

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It was a real win win situation ……. happy 2020 a la mode, Avant Garde and de rigueur Halloween type days!  What are we like?

Wednesday 21 October 2020

Nigel Let Loose ……

With Halloween fast approaching it’s not really advisable to let Nigel loose in the Halloween aisle of any shop purveying such items of a spookily themed nature …….

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……. as Lucy found, to her cost, on a recent shopping trip, looking for, believe it or not new bedding!!!!!!

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However, it has to be said that the sight of the little fella attempting to ride a mahooooooosive spider, while performing a very realistic a lasso type move and yelling “Giddy up there Dobbin” ………

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……. did have Lu and one or two fellow customers falling about laughing ……. what is he like?

Tuesday 20 October 2020

Autumn

I think Autumn must be my most favourite time of the year …..

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…….. the colours, the smells, the golden sunshine and warm breezes and watching the leaves cascade down from the trees …….

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In my humble opinion it is also the most romantic of the seasons, there isn’t a seasonal activity that comes close to kicking up the leaves on a long walk ……. 

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…….. well, except perhaps for paddling in the Greek sea in the summer and goodness only knows we haven’t been able to do that this year!

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Autumn makes me feel all warm and cosy. Darrell has started to make more soup and in the evenings we like to watch tele by candlelight ……. and then there’s mugs of hot chocolate, (with marshmallows and squirty cream at the weekend) before bed.

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It also means that within a week or two The Towers will once again get it’s view of the river and the marina back, which is pretty much hidden in the summer,  except for the bottom bit ……….. bring it on ……. Happy Days!

Monday 19 October 2020

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

It’s usually Darrell who has the occasional attack of the vapours now and again ……..

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……. but yesterday morning it was my turn,  I had just switched on the computer to catch up with the news ……………..

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……. when this is what greeted me …….

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…… nooooooooooooooo, this blooming, blooming, blooming  virus!

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My heart sank to the very pit of my stomach like a ten ton weight………

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… as if fighting over toilet rolls and hoarding pasta, floor and chicken nuggets wasn’t bad enough, (not that we ever participated in such activity)!!!!

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Poor Darrell must have wondered what on earth had come over me when he heard all my groaning …….IMG_7719

“Oh that”, he said with a dramatic PAH and a flounce  …….. “ Well, it just goes to show how much notice you’ve taken of all the squirrelling I’ve been doing of late doesn’t it!”

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……… “I’ve been at it for weeks …….. you could even have your Christmas dinner tomorrow if you really wanted!”

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Oh my goodness ………. what would I ever do without him?