I mentioned a few weeks ago that, during the various Lockdowns, I'd taken up two new hobbies...

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Do you remember Sooty and Sweep? They were a sort of soft toy version of Laurel and Hardy.

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I still love Sooty's body language :-)

And it seems they're still going strong, though I should imagine they're a bit less anarchic these days.As a toddler, I had a very special relationship with Sooty because my cot mattress was decorated with little ( Read more... )

I'm sorry I haven't been posting or commenting much recently. I've been too fed up, but I do read my flist daily, and I do know how everyone's doing: we're all abiding, as manoah says.

At New Year, I started writing a 'review' of 2020, basing it on the photos I'd taken, but I gave up because it was so boring. Anyone want to see the new slippers I got on ( Read more... )

(I recently watched the Eurovision episode of Father Ted ;-)

I've been lurking in the shadows for the past few months, too down in the dumps (for various reasons) to shape myself and post anything, but I have been doing some FutureLearn courses -- The Art of Washi Paper in Japanese Rare Books; The Living Picture Craze: An Introduction to Victorian ( Read more... )

My brother (P2) sent me another video, which makes me laugh every time I watch it, so I thought it might make other people happy, too!

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Can you believe it? Poor Pinky and Perky are living on borrowed time ( Read more... )

I've been trying to post something for ages but, until the cat incident, everything I wrote seemed to turn into "Waaaaaaah, I hate being on my own ( Read more... )

A while ago, someone reported me to the RSPCA for neglecting my cats. (I may even have found the person who did it because, one night (before the Lockdown), a woman hammered on the door and said, "That cat is crying with cold and hunger!" to which I replied, "It's not my cat!" And, when I mentioned that someone had reported me to the RSPCA for ( Read more... )