Silly Americans

Americans call St Bernards 'Saint Ber-nards' !

You rang m'lord?

After many hours of discussion between myself and the girls, it was agreed that the St Bernard would be the dog of choice for becoming our personal secretary. We feel he'd be organised, efficient and punctual. He'd keep on top of the payment of bills, arrange for our cars to be cleaned, our shopping to be delivered and bring us the odd cup of tea (with a good selection of biscuits, of course). But I do worry that his telephone manner may be too brusque for answering non-work related calls from friends and family? Whereas this chap...

Missy is bang on trend

A fascinator to wear to the Royal wedding perhaps?

So stylish

I forgot to put up photos of the Miss Marple hat and glove accessory set that I made at Christmas. All that fur I brushed out of her all summer was put to good use. It was a labour of love. Every fashionable girl about town should be wearing this combo!

Woo-hoo!

I got these dog shot glasses FREE!!! Triumph!

I love bats

The museum was brilliant. But not as brilliant as these bats rescued from the Australian floods.

Snooping around

I'm off to the Geffrye museum...

Bad weather

Evidence that I was right to feel cold

Another sprayer!

Cat spray is very hard to get out of a soft furnishing - Fact

Uh-oh. We have another male cat coming in after Miss Marple. Poor Missy hates him. He's sprayed all over the house and she's too scared to go outside. If only she wasn't so beautiful.

New year fortunes

Looking back at our 2010 fortunes. They didn't come true, thankfully!