Yes, Friends, have YOU got at least one crazy pet? Most of us have, don't we! And seasonal stories of Britain's crazy pets are threatening to take over the pages not just of all our "nationals" this morning, but even every local paper.
And this morning's local Onion News for East Hampshire is no exception, to put it mildly!!!
However, the story brings the hint of the beginnings of a seasonal, festive grin to the mouths of Your Truly and my wife, Mrs Yours Truly, as we lie in bed reading Butterscotch's story, here in our lovely home in rural, semi-leafy Liphook, Hampshire, this chilly Tuesday morning, that's for sure!!!!
Our own Christmas tree doesn't have any cats in it, last time I checked (!). And it's already up and running - well, it's up anyway, and hopefully it won't run away anywhere soon, fingers crossed!!!! And our decorations are "in place", which is nice! And, as the icing on our Christmas cake (no pun intended!!!!), my Christmas tee-shirt has arrived from Amazon, which is a relief!!!!!
my wife Mrs Yours Truly and me, "all set" for Christmas - some recent pictures
We can't rest on our Christmas laurel-leaves, however - no pun intended!!! - because we've got an Ocado supermarket delivery coming at 7 am would you believe, and then we've got to drive to nearby Grayshott, just over the county line in Surrey, to pick up our pre-Christmas meat and deli order, and then we've got to come home and wrap up our presents to friends and family, and then we've got to take our daily walk, so once again it's busy busy busy!!!!!!
And we're planning to do it all "dressed up like Eskimos", as the Christmas Song says - or, rather "dressed up like Inuits" to be a little more "PC" about it haha!!!
These are my suggested new lyrics (patent pending !!!!) for my new 'woke-to-wokeish' version of the old song, which still manages to retain the song's original cosy 'feel' in my humble opinion!!!
But your views welcome - postcards only, needless to say !!!!
today's busy schedule: (1) our Ocado supermarket order due at 7 am (yikes!),
(2) picking up our pre-ordered meat, deli and CookShop ready meals in Grayshott,
(3) wrapping Christmas presents for friends and family, and (4) taking our daily walk, which
today takes us through nearby bird-infested Radford Park, "dressed up like Inuits (!) "
You wouldn't think we've been retired since March 2006, would you! However did we find time to go to work haha!!!!
flashback to March 2006: my 60th birthday, the day we both retired,
thinking our lives would become "a walk in the park" - what fools we were!!!
[You don't really know what the word 'busy' means, do you, Colin! - Ed]
Luckily there are some "fun" tasks to do today, as well, including reading the traditional "festive" edition of Lois's "The Week" magazine, with its amusing round-up of the year's best tabloid stories, like this 'doozy' about Welsh potholes - see below for details !!!!
Another fun job today is the annual "finishing off", this evening, of our two already-nearly-empty wine bottles", to make more room in the tiny "drinks section" of our sideboard for our two new bottles, our official 2026 ones, which arrive this morning from Ocado.
And this is how you do it: step-by-step....see pictures below, if you're uncertain!!!!
1. Take your nearly-finished wine bottles and pour the remaining liquid into two separate glasses: warning: don't mix!!!!
2. Drink the red one
3. Drink the white one - simples, isn't it !!!!!
Only one thing is missing now - a bit of sunshine and a warm, semi-tropical beach to lie on, perhaps!
Well, we're not going to get that in Liphook, unless there's a major upset in the seasonal weather-patterns - and coastlines (!!!!), but at least we get some pictures tonight from our daughter Sarah, who lives 9000 miles away in Yanchep, a northern suburb of Perth, Western Australia, with husband Francis and their 12-year-old twin daughters Lily and Jessica.
On Sunday they packed up all their camping gear and drove 350 miles south to Bremer Bay on the Southern Ocean - next stop Antarctica - under blue skies, in temperatures of around 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38C), would you believe!!!!
No fair !!!!!!
And now, here's Carol Kirkwood with the weather (!): 40F feels like 22 - brrrrrrr!!!!!
What a crazy planet we live on !!!!!!
Will this do?
[Oh just go to bed! - Ed]
22:00 We go to bed - zzzzzzzz!!!!!!
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