The Mysterious Mystery of the Missing Plumes ... Explained!!!!

Many thanks to Jennie from the Planet Jen blog for the following pics - which show clearly that Falafel's missing plumes ARE NOW GROWING ON HER HAMSTER!!!





The super little chap in the pics is called Bodkin, and he is clearly quite a youngster. I guess that no sooner will he be used to having plumes than he will be obliged to hand them on to someone else - but we'll see.

Illustration Friday - Garden

This painting is based on the Botanical Gardens in Birmingham, West Midlands, UK (not that the scene looks anything like Birmingham, Alabama). This fantabulous place actually does have peacocks wandering loose around it. Noisy gits they are, too!

Illustration Friday - Leap!

It was always going to take a mammoth leap of the imagination, but these beavers were able to visualise their catch as a round of fish and chips.

I've made somebody's day!

Shaky Mouse of the Shaky Mouse blog (and I really do recommend a visit to this place) has very kindly nominated Puflet Palace for a 'You Make My Day Award'.  His blog would have featured in my top 5 in any case, but this isn't allowed as it constitutes incest as defined by the book of Common Prayer of 1549.  So I'm nominating the following:

Ambitious Hamster
Elizabeth's Journal
Chichi Parish
Pescador
Ragamuffins

This is how it works:

- The recipients should write a post with links to 5 blogs that make them think warm fuzzy thoughts.
- Acknowledge in the post the award giver.
- Display the "You Make My Day Award" logo with a link to the original post (Optional)
- Tell the award winners that they have won by commenting on their blogs with the news.

The case of the missing plumes ...

Some of you will be familiar with Falafel, the significant male who lives with me, and you have probably known him looking like this:



However, something has happened over the winter months, and he now looks like this:



I'd like to know what's happened to his plumes.  Do any of you out there know who's got them?

Illustration Friday - Theory

I know - it's been a long time.  My old computer keyboard went on a sit-down strike after it had a bath in tea (PG Tips, water, cow juice).  

But the main reason is that these squirrels who operate the blog (mostly) have been testing their theories about how best to attack sunflowers in order to extricate the seeds.  They are having some problems, and this really is theoretical because the weather in the UK at this time of year is too cold for sunflowers, and they're having to work from maps, diagrams and illustrations.  One of these is shown here.

As you can see, there is a distinct gap between theory and practice - but I'll let you know how they get on.

It's good to see that some things never change, and Blugger and layouts are a case in point ...

With the compliments of the season ...