Much to 'The Fonts' horror two field mice scurry across the kitchen floor. The fact that they're out and about in January testimony to how mild the winter's been. The poor things must be terribly confused ... and tired. We've spent a small fortune plastering up all the holes in the outside walls to stop them coming in to hibernate. This has been as effective as Canute trying to halt the incoming tide.
Mid-morning a group of workmen arrive on the lane outside the gate. They cut down all the little branches that have sprouted from the trunks of the plane trees. A green lorry with a man standing on the back drives slowly forward. This is followed by four workmen in green overalls who collect the branches. Behind them, with no obvious purpose, is a van with orange flashing lights. At the end of this procession is a man in a small Peugeot , presumably the boss. From time to time he stops, gets out and sprints down the road to point out a branch that his colleagues have missed.
We find this street theatre interesting. The PONs find it absolutely riveting. Bob sits on his stump seat and watches the workmen. They say hello.
Sophie adopts a less decorous means of welcome. She stands on her back legs. front paws on the gate and howls.
And here is what must surely be the most unusual political ad of the year. Thank you Iowa :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFd67uhrJwQ
8 comments:
What better welcome than a PON welcome?
And France still has an unemployment problem..?
Re Iowa: Much as the advert is rubbish, I think that the TV presenter is awful.. Fancy having to listen to that till Election Day and beyond.
Huckabee is awful but that DJ announcer is worse. What an obnoxious little person with ear phones and a potty mouth. This is the stuff we must all endure until November. Campaigners knocking on the door, mailbox overflowing with unrecyclable campaign flyers and then there's the phone....god help me, ringing off the hook. I don't even want to discuss tv ads...but those I can click off.
Perhaps a new member to the family - of the feline kind?
American Presidential campaigns at their worst. Camille is so right in her assessment of the DJ announcer - he's awful - cringe making ! I dread to think what the next five years of US Politics will be like if Huckabee and Trump are elected. Peace, democracy and diplomacy in their hands?
Sophie has a most fetching look in the last picture.
Interesting, at least to me, that Mike Huckabee somehow thinks he is a 'rival' to Donald Trump and Ted Cruz when he really has been barely more than a footnote to this circus sideshow. I love politics, but I think that Bob and Sophie's front row seats to the excitement has more appeal than what some of the Republicans are saying.
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